The release date for the English version of 'Cold Enough for Snow' by
Jessica Au is Feb 2022. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A mother and daughter come to Tokyo from overseas to meet up. They stroll the canals in the crisp autumn nights, avoid the rains of a typhoon, eat together in quaint cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to view some of the most avant-garde modern art the city has to offer. They converse about everything throughout: relatives, distance, memories, horoscopes, clothing, and items. However, there are many unknowns. Is the daughter alone speaking in this instance? And why, indeed, is this meandering, potentially spectral journey taking place? Cold Enough for Snow is both a sobering examination and an elegy, asking what is the common language we all speak, what dimensions love might occupy, and what right we have to genuinely understand another person's inner reality.
The Novel Prize, a new biennial award presented by Fitzcarraldo Editions, New Directions (US) and Giramondo (Australia) for any English-language novel that explores and enhances the possibilities of the form, was won by Cold Enough for Snow, which was chosen from more than 1,500 entries.