Everything you need to understand or teach Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada.
Scattered All Over the Earth is a literary novel by Yoko Tawada set in the near future. Its plot revolves around the disappearance of Japan from the world and the efforts of one Japanese woman, Hiruko, to find another person from her native country. Hiruko attracts a multicultural group of friends that help her pursue this goal, including a Danish linguistics student and an Eskimo man passing himself off as Japanese while working at a sushi restaurant. The novel explores themes related to language, the environment, collectivism, and more.
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