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16%OFFClara Kumagai - Catfish Rolling - 9781803288055 - 9781803288055
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Catfish Rolling

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Description for Catfish Rolling Paperback.
WINNER OF THE KPMG CHILDREN'S BOOKS IRELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A dazzling debut. Magic-realism blends with Japanese myth and legend in an original story about grief, memory, time and an earthquake that shook a nation. There's a catfish under the islands of Japan and when it rolls the land rises and falls. Sora hates the catfish whose rolling caused an earthquake so powerful it cracked time itself. It destroyed her home and took her mother. Now Sora and her scientist father live close to the zones – the wild and abandoned places where time runs ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781803288055
SKU
9781803288055
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Clara Kumagai
Clara Kumagai is from Canada, Japan and Ireland. Her fiction and non-fiction for children and adults has been published in The Stinging Fly, the Irish Times, Banshee, Room, the Kyoto Journal and Cicada, among others. She is a recipient of a We Need Diverse Books Mentorship, and was a finalist for the 2020 Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award. Catfish Rolling ... Read more

Reviews for Catfish Rolling
Mining philosophy, science fiction and Japanese mythology to craft a mature, compelling story of loss and tragedy, Kumagai spins the tale of a Japan fractured in time by an earthquake caused by an infamous monster
Waterstones The Books You Need to Read in 2023
An outstanding debut, this is a unique and ambitious story of grief and coming ... Read more

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