Name: The Emissary
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Author: Tawada, Yoko ; Mitsutani, Margaret
ISBN: 9780811227629

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yoko Tawada

Translated by

Margaret Mitsutani

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.6 x 13.0 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9780811227629

Synopsis "The Emissary "

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.