@article{851134,
      note = {"New Directions paperback original, NDP1405"},
      author = {Tawada, Yåoko, and Mitsutani, Margaret,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/851134},
      title = {The emissary /},
      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.},
      recid = {851134},
      pages = {138 pages ;},
}