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Cold Enough for Snow
- Narrated by: Gaby Seow
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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?
Critic 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)
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- M. McCracken
- 08-02-2023
Good Craft but Meh
An award winner, this is well crafted and deserves a solid three stars. Some will love.
I felt it was unbalanced between the time in Japan and the reminiscing about the boyfriend. Narrator let it down. So hard to tell if I would’ve rated it higher if I read the physical copy. Am left without feeling.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 28-06-2023
justice for the book, justice for the narrator!
I see that there's mixed reviews, so I'd like to add my 2 cents.
I read this for a bookclub and after my first read I couldn't find the narrative and I was frustrated! but after my second pass I realised the happenings were in the subtext, and the book itself is a warm and beautiful stream of consciousness. If you need a clear plot, big moments, and a moral to the story, this might not be the one for you. But this book is really a simple art; the author has done a wonderful job telling us so much with her curated words in this descriptive story.
(and good job to the narrator, I think you captured the tone really well!)
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- Anonymous User
- 20-11-2023
At once full and empty
Growing up in a culture that tends to explain explain everything in direct clarity, I’m used to stories that read like a set of IKEA instructions, leaving little room for multiple interpretations (but plenty of misinterpretation). This book is different, it alludes to so much. It’s an opening not a closing. Unfinished like everything.
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- Genevieve
- 18-03-2023
A beautiful, poetic narrative
It is not so much a story as it is a very beautiful recount of a journey, from the perspective of someone who is very observant and thoughtful when reflecting on the mundane. It also paints a picture of a different culture through the observations. I enjoyed listening to it a lot, though it wasn’t at all what I expected.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-04-2022
A gentle, beautiful story
This is a unique, meandering story. Particularly beautiful to listen to as an audiobook to help you "see" the vivid places and scenes described. Not for those who like a traditional beginning, middle, end structure, but interesting for the way it deviates from this.
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- heron lee
- 26-04-2023
story let ðown by narration
great story, though I found I often drifted and didn't find the narration held my attention. Ended up listening twice and still think I missed a fair bit of the story.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Adriane Daff
- 18-07-2023
Read the book don’t listen to it
I feel compelled to weigh in on the narration because I found it so awful. Words were mispronounced, the tone was robotic and the audio quality was so clipped I actually thought it was an AI. The story itself has a beautiful symbolism to it that I feel like I want to give it another go but read it this time instead of listening to it.
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- Charlotte Critchlow
- 11-03-2023
Beautiful simple study of relationships
I really enjoyed this tale of a mother and daughter’s trip to Japan. The writing is beautiful in its simplicity and echoes the characters and their interaction, as well as being the setting. Through the descriptions and stories from the past we come to understand the main character and her relationship with her mother and other important people in her life. There are no major plot lines and it is much like an art house movie in this way, so it won’t be for the plot-driven, however I loved it. The narration was gentle and mimicked the understated style of the writing.
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- Chocolaterian
- 17-07-2022
What was the point?
Dull, boring and lots of disjointed and scattered anecdotes which didn’t blend together or make any point to me. Where was the light bulb moment of connection with her mother? Wasn’t there going to be some revelation or epiphany? I just didn’t understand the point of this book even after persevering till the end. Small tales as if diary entries but totally uninteresting. The narrator was equally dull I’m afraid. I didn’t find the descriptions rich or vivid as some reviewers note. Only plus point, it was short!
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- E Vander Reyden
- 01-03-2023
had high hopes
I thought the narration was soothing and gentle which suited the style of the book. The scenes set and were described vividly with so much detail it was almost poetic however it lacked any connection to the characters they fell flat and were uninteresting. Overall I felt like this book was about everything and yet nothing. I feel the author has such potential to be a great story teller if there is an actual story to tell.
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