"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."
--Édouard Louis

"A beautifully observed book, written in precise, elegant prose that contains a wealth of deep feeling."
--Kirkus Reviews

"The soft, patient warmth of Au’s prose…sometimes feels attuned to truths just out of the narrator’s reach."
--The New Yorker

"Hypnotic…Once this probing and surprising text catches hold, it leaves the reader with lingering questions."
--Publisher’s Weekly

"One of the most sublime novels I’ve ever read…Its themes are familiar, but the way Jessica handles those themes made me rethink assumptions I had about the rules of fiction. A delicate and beautifully written novel, I’ll be going back to it even after the year ends, time and time again."
--Camonghne Felix

★An award-winning title written by a Melbourne Chinese writer Jessica Au, and bring readers a wonderful but kind of intense and melancholic journey regarding a mother and a daughter.
★Award information:
WINNER: The Novel Prize 2020;
Victorian Premier’s Literary Award – Fiction 2023;
Victorian Prize for Literature 2023;
The Readings Prize – New Australian Fiction 2022
SHORTLISTED: ABIA – Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year 2023;
The Age Book of the Year Award 2022;
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards – Fiction 2023;
Queensland Literary Awards – Fiction 2022;
BookPeople Nielsen – Adult Fiction Book of the Year 2023
LONGLISTED: Miles Franklin Literary Award 2023;
Indie Book Awards – Fiction 2022;
Dublin Literary Award 2023;
ALS Gold Medal 2023
★Rights sold to: Arabic, Brazil, Catalan, China, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, North America, Poland, Portugal,Romania, Russia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, HK and Macau, Turkey and UK.
★Audio rights sold.

A young woman has arranged a holiday with her mother in Japan. 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 own formative experiences. But uncertainties abound. How much is spoken between them, how much is thought but unspoken? Cold Enough for Snow is a reckoning and an elegy: with extraordinary skill, Au creates an enveloping atmosphere that expresses both the tenderness between mother and daughter, and the distance between them.

Jessica Au
Jessica Au is a writer based in Melbourne. She has worked as deputy editor at the quarterly journal Meanjin and as a fact-checker for Aeon magazine. Her novel, Cold Enough for Snow (2022), is the inaugural winner of The Novel Prize and was published by Giramondo, New Directions and Fitzcarraldo Editions, with translation in eighteen languages.