The emissary / Yoko Tawada ; translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Series: New Directions paperbook original ; 1405.Publisher: New York : New Directions, 2018Description: 138 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780811227629
- 0811227626
- Kentoshi. English
- 895.6/35 23
- PL862.A85 K4613 2018
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Book | Sonoma Academy Library | F TAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 922467 |
Originally published in Japanese as Kent�oshi: T�oky�o : K�odansha, 2014.
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."
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