The emissary / Yoko Tawada ; translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani.
2018
PL862.A85 K4613 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
The emissary / Yoko Tawada ; translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani.
Author
Uniform Title
Kentoshi. English
ISBN
9780811227629 (paperback)
0811227626 (paperback)
0811227626 (paperback)
Published
New York : New Directions Books, [2018]
Language
English
Description
138 pages ; 21 cm.
Item Number
9780811227629
Call Number
PL862.A85 K4613 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
895.6/35
Summary
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.
Note
"New Directions paperback original, NDP1405"
Awards
National Book Award, 2018.
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Series
A New Directions paperback original ; NDP1405
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