Format:
138 pages ;
,
21 cm.
ISBN:
9780811227629
,
0811227626
Series Statement:
A New Directions paperback original NDP1405
Uniform Title:
Kentoshi
Content:
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 great-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. -- From back cover
Note:
"New Directions paperback original, NDP1405.
Additional Edition:
Online version Tawada, Yōko, 1960- Emissary New York : New Directions, 2018 ISBN 9780811227636
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
Keywords:
Dystopias
;
Japanese fiction
;
Dystopian fiction
;
Fiction
;
Fiktionale Darstellung
Author information:
Tawada, Yōko 1960-
