Cold Enough for Snow / Jessica Au
Cold Enough for Snow / Jessica Au
“The inaugural winner of The Novel Prize, a new biennial award established by Giramondo, Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions. Cold Enough for Snow was unanimously chosen from over 1500 entries.
Jessica Au’s novel is published by Giramondo, as well as Fitzcarraldo Editions in the UK and New Directions in the US, and will be translated into eighteen languages around the world.
A young woman has arranged a holiday with her mother in Japan. 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 own formative experiences. But uncertainties abound. How much is spoken between them, how much is thought but unspoken? Cold Enough for Snow is a reckoning and an elegy: with extraordinary skill, Au creates an enveloping atmosphere that expresses both the tenderness between mother and daughter, and the distance between them.”
WINNER: Victorian Premier’s Literary Award – Fiction 2023
WINNER: Victorian Prize for Literature 2023
WINNER: The Readings Prize – New Australian Fiction 2022
SHORTLISTED: The Age Book of the Year Award 2022
SHORTLISTED: NSW Premier’s Literary Awards – Fiction 2023
SHORTLISTED: Queensland Literary Awards – Fiction 2022
LONGLISTED: Indie Book Awards – Fiction 2022
LONGLISTED: Dublin Literary Award 2023
Publisher: Giramondo Press 2022 © Jessica Au The text above is courtesy of the publisher.
Design: Jenny Grigg
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