The emissary
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Author
Contributions
- Mitsutani, Margaret, translator - Contributor
Publication
2018 - New Directions, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
34,500 words, Guess
Page Count
138 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780811227629
- ISBN-100811227626
- Library of Congress Control Number2017041786
- OCLC Control Number992742755
- Better World Books9780811227629
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL26947890M
Classifications
- DDC895.6/35
- LCCPL862.A85 K4613 2018
- LCCPL862.A85K4613 2018
Description
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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