- Title:
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Cold Enough for Snow (MP3)
- Written by:
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Jessica Au
- Read by:
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Gaby Seow
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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3 hours 16 minutes
- MP3 size:
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141 MB
- Published:
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March 01 2022
- Available Date:
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March 01 2022
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781867597810
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; General Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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Award winning author
Australian author
Shortlisted Age Book of the Year Awards 2022
Shortlisted 2022 The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award 2022
Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / Victorian Prize for Literature 2023
Longlisted Indie Book Awards / Fiction 2023
Longlisted Dublin Literary Award 2023
Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / Prize for Fiction 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 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.
'Jessica Au is a new talent to be watched.'
Romy Ash, Australian Book Review
'Au's writing ebbs along effortlessly and poetically.'
The Australian
'Rarely have I been so moved, reading a book: I love the quiet beauty of Cold Enough for Snow and how, within its calm simplicity, Jessica Au camouflages incredible power.'
Edouard Louis, author of The End of Eddy
'So calm and clear and deep, I wished it would flow on forever.'
Helen Garner, award-winning author of The Spare Room