Passengers on the Hankyu Line Publisher / Across the River Press Scattered All Over the Earth

Scattered All Over the Earth is another sui generis masterwork by Yoko Tawada

such as Bonfire Night Black Peas and Dublin Bay Prawns

Published by the Queensland Art Gallery for the exhibition 'Story Place: Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest'

partly based on interviews with the artist and fully revised

Passengers on the Hankyu Line Publisher / Across the River Press Scattered All Over the EarthTrundling through the scenic countryside of Kyoto and Osaka is the Hankyu line, a burgundy coloured electric train that has been carrying its commuters to their destinations for decades. Over the course of a single journey in springtime, and the return journey six months later just as the leaves begin to fall: a young man meets the woman who happens to take out the last copy of the library book he was about to borrow; an angry wedding guest dresses in