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Title:
The emissary / Yoko Tawada ; translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani.
Author:
Tawada, Yōko, 1960- author.

Mitsutani, Margaret, translator.
Publication Information:
New York : New Directions Books, [2018]
Call Number:
PL862.A85 K4613 2018
Abstract:
Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient--frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise. Mumei may be enfeebled and feverish, but he is a beacon of hope, full of wit and free of self-pity and pessimism. Yoshiro concentrates on nourishing Mumei, a strangely wonderful boy who offers "the beauty of the time that is yet to come."A delightful, irrepressibly funny book, The Emissary is filled with light. Yoko Tawada, deftly turning inside-out "the curse," defies gravity and creates a playful joyous novel out of a dystopian one, with a legerdemain uniquely her own.
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ISBN:
9780811227629
Series:
A New Directions paperback original ; NDP1405

New Directions paperbook ; NDP1405.
Physical Description:
138 pages ; 21 cm.
General Note:
"New Directions paperback original, NDP1405."
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Uniform Title:
献灯使. English
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