Cold Enough for Snow
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Narrated by:
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Gaby Seow
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Written by:
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Jessica Au
About this listen
Short-listed, Age Book of the Year Awards, 2022
Short-listed, The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award, 2022
Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Victorian Prize for Literature, 2022
Long-listed, The Indie Book Awards, 2023
Long-listed, Dublin Literary Award, 2023
Winner, Victorian Premier's 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 another’s 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 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 allegiances in Australia. But uncertainties abound. How much is spoken between them, how much is thought but unspoken?
©2022 Jessica Au. First published in print by Giramondo Publishing Company, Fitzcarraldo Editions, and New Directions Publishing (P)2022 Bolinda PublishingCritic Reviews
"So calm and clear and deep, I wished it would flow on forever." (Helen Garner)
"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)
"Au's writing ebbs along effortlessly and poetically." (The Australian)