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Bibliographic Information
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The emissary
- Author
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Tawada, YŻoko, 1960-
- Publisher:
- New Directions,
- Pub date:
- 2018.
- Description:
- 138 pages ;
- ISBN:
- 0811227626
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Item info:
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1 copy currently available - Varina Library.
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- 0
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The emissary
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Personal Author:
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Tawada, YŻoko, 1960-
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Title:
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The emissary / Yoko Tawada ; translated by Margaret Mitsutani.
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Publication Info:
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New York : New Directions, 2018.
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Physical descrip:
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138 pages ; 16 cm.
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General Note:
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"A New Directions Paperbook Original."
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Summary:
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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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Held by:
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TUCKAHOE VARINAAREA
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Subject term:
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Ethics--Fiction.
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Subject term:
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Group identity--Fiction.
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Subject term:
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Societies--Japan--Fiction.
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Geographic term:
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Japan--Fiction.
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Genre index term:
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Dystopian fiction. lcgft
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Added author:
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Mitsutani, Margaret
