The emissary / Yoko Tawada ; translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tawada, Yōko, 1960- author.

Contributor:

Mitsutani, Margaret, translator.

Standardized Title:

Kentōshi. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Societies--Japan--Fiction.

Societies.

Ethics--Fiction.

Ethics.

Group identity--Fiction.

Group identity.

Japan--Fiction.

Japan.

Genre:

Fiction.

Dystopias.

Dystopian fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

138 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Books, [2018]

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.

Other Format:

Online version: Tawada, Yōko, 1960- Emissary.

ISBN:

9780811227629

0811227626

OCLC:

992742755

Publisher Number:

9780811227629