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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. |
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics.
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Societies -- Japan -- Fiction.
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Ethics -- Fiction.
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Group identity -- Fiction.
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Japan -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Dystopian fiction.
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Dystopias.
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| Added Author |
Mitsutani, Margaret, translator.
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| Added Title |
Kentoshi. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Tawada, Yōko, 1960- Emissary. New York : New Directions, 2018 9780811227636 (DLC) 2017048878 |
| ISBN |
9780811227629 (acid-free paper) |
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0811227626 |
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