EAN: 9780811227629

THE EMISSARY - YOKO TAWADA KARTONIERT (TB)

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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