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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 128
Utgivningsdatum: 2018-04-13
Förlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Översättare: Margaret Mitsutani
Dimensioner: 196 x 130 x 13 mm
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ISBN: 9780811227629

The Emissary

Name: The Emissary
Price: 149.00 SEK
Availability: InStock
Author: Yoko Tawada
ISBN: 9780811227629

av Yoko Tawada

Häftad, Engelska, 2018-04-13

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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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