| The Emissary Contributor(s): Tawada, Yoko (Author), Mitsutani, Margaret (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811227626 ISBN-13: 9780811227629 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology - Fiction | Dystopian |
| Dewey: 895.635 |
| LCCN: 2017041786 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (0.35 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tawada, Yoko: - Yoko Tawada--"strange, exquisite" (The New Yorker )--was born in Tokyo in 1960 and moved to Germany when she was twenty-two. She writes in both Japanese and German and has received the Akutagawa Prize, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Goethe Medal, and the Tanizaki Prize.Mitsutani, Margaret: - Margaret Mitsutani is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Japan's 1994 Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburo Oe. |