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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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Societies, Ethics, Group identity, Fiction, Japan, fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Fiction, general, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, Linguistics, Grandparent-grandchild relationship, Grandfathers, Societies--japan--fiction, Ethics--fiction, Group identity--fiction, Pl862.a85 k4613 2018, 895.6/35Places
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