The Emissary
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| List Price | $14.95 | |
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| 25 - 99 | $10.47 | 30% |
| 100 - 499 | $9.72 | 35% |
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$14.95
Book Information
| Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
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| Publish Date: | 04/24/2018 |
| Pages: | 128 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780811227629 |
| ISBN-10: | 0811227626 |
| Language: | English |
Full 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.
