| Publisher: | Giramondo Publishing |
| Genres: | Fiction Books, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Books |
| Authors: | Jessica Au |
| Pages: | 98 pages |
| ISBN13: | 9781925818925 |
| Tags: | Fiction Books, Literary Fiction Books, Contemporary Books, Free Books, PDF Books |
| Language: | en |
| Type: | Digital |
**Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2023, Fiction**
**Winner, Victorian Prize for Literature 2023**
**Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Award 2023**
**Shortlisted, ABIA Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year**
**Shortlisted, 2023 BookPeople Adult Fiction Book of the Year**
The inaugural winner of The Novel Prize, an international biennial award established by Giramondo (Australia), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and New Directions (USA). Cold Enough for Snow was unanimously chosen from over 1500 entries.
A novel about the relationship between life and art, and between language and the inner world - how difficult it is to speak truly, to know and be known by another, and how much power and friction lies in the unsaid, especially between a mother and daughter.
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.
