Cold Enough for Snow - Jessica Au
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Gaby Seow
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Adults, Contemporary
Short-listed, Age Book of the Year Awards, 2022, Short-listed, The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award, 2022, Winner, Victorian Premiers Literary Awards Victorian Prize for Literature, 2022, Long-listed, The Indie Book Awards, 2023, Long-listed, Dublin Literary Award, 2023, Winner, Victorian Premiers 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 anothers 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 cafs 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, c
