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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 rout...
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New Directions Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English Japanese |
| Series: |
A New Directions paperback original ;
NDP1405 |
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| 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. |
| Item Description: | "New Directions paperback original, NDP1405." |
| Carrier Form: | 138 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780811227629 (paperback) : 0811227626 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | PL862 |
| CLC: | I313.45 |
| Call Number: | I313.45/T234-1 |