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2000s: A woman and her mother walk around Tokyo and talk
Cold Enough for Snow
What you need to know before your trail
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city’s most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, horoscopes, clothes, and objects, about family, distance, and memory. But uncertainties abound. Who is really speaking here – is it only the daughter? And what is the real reason behind this elliptical, perhaps even spectral journey? 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.
Travel Guide
A guided tour with mother and daughter
When we left the hotel it was raining, a light, fine rain, as can sometimes happen in Tokyo in October. I said that where we were going was not far–we would only need to get to the station, the same one that we had arrived at yesterday, and then catch two trains and walk a little down some small streets until we got to the museum.
The locations are various museums and galleries in Tokyo. We then travel on to Osaka and Kyoto. The true journey if you like is the one which the two characters, the mother and daughter take as they wander around the city of Tokyo.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Cold Enough for Snow
Destination/Location: Tokyo Author: Jessica Au Departure: 2000s
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