Cold Enough for Snow - Jessica Au torrent

Category: Adults, Contemporary, General Fiction, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Asia Australia Contemporary Fiction Japan Japanese Literature Literary Fiction Novella Novels Travel

Written by Jessica Au
Read by Gaby Seow
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged

Short-listed, Age Book of the Year Awards, 2022

Short-listed, The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award, 2022

Winner, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Victorian Prize for Literature, 2022

Long-listed, The Indie Book Awards, 2023

Long-listed, Dublin Literary Award, 2023

Winner, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Prize for Fiction, 2023

Short-listed, ABIA Awards, 2023

At once a careful reckoning and an elegy, Cold Enough for Snow questions whether any of us speak a common language, which dimensions can contain love and what claim we have to truly know another’s inner world.

A young woman accompanies her mother on a holiday in Japan. The daughter has arranged their itinerary. They travel by train, visit galleries and churches chosen for their art and architecture, eat together in small cafés and restaurants and walk along the canals at night, on guard against the autumn rain and the prospect of snow. All the while, they talk, or seem to talk: about the weather, horoscopes, clothes and objects; about the mother’s family in Hong Kong and the daughter’s allegiances in Australia. But uncertainties abound. How much is spoken between them, how much is thought but unspoken?

©2022 Jessica Au (P)2022 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
Release date: 03-01-22