Catfish Rolling

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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 faster or slower than normal. Sora is sensitive to the shifts, and her father recruits her help in exploring these liminal spaces.
But it's dangerous there — and as she strays further inside in search of her mother, she finds that time distorts, memories fracture and shadows, a glimmer of things not entirely human, linger. After Sora's father goes missing, she has no choice but to venture into uncharted spaces within the time zones to find him, her mother and perhaps even the catfish itself…
Stylish, accomplished and thought-provoking story-telling explores themes of identity, philosophy, science, ecology, life, loss and love. For 14+

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356 printed pages

Publication year: 2023
Publishers: Bloomsbury Publishing, Zephyr

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gdfuniversshared an impression2 years ago
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Clara Kumagais roman CATFISH ROLLING. Om en ung kvindes oplevelse af en forstyrrelse i tid og rum efter det store jordskælv i Japan, som stadig har konsekvenser for mennesker og landskab. Mange var nødt til at forlade deres hjem gennem generationer, i Fukushima regionen kan familier ikke vende tilbage pga radioaktivitet fra a-kraftværk ulykken, og nogle områder ligger øde, forbudt for mennesker den dag idag.

Kumagai kredser også om den midlertidige forandring som jordskælvet udløste på planeten. Skælvet var så kraftigt at det påvirkede planetens placering på sin egen akse, så året blev kortere.. Noget af tiden forsvandt.
Forsvunden tid og utilgængelige områder smelter sammen i romanen.

"Some of the people who were displaced said that it was like they were living the same day again and again, they had lost all sense of time. Those were the big influences that got melded together in my mind for the book — and then using magic and folklore was an easier way to process that.” Spændende. @clarakiyoko
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