Catfish Rolling

WINNER OF THE KPMG CHILDREN''S BOOKS IRELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A dazzling debut. Magic-realism blends with Japanese myth and legend in an original story about grief, memory, time and an earthqu ...

WINNER OF THE KPMG CHILDREN''S BOOKS IRELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A 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