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The emissary / Yoko Tawada ; translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani.

by Tawada, Yōko, 1960-

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New Directions Books, 2018.

Ethics -- Fiction.

Group identity -- Fiction.

Japan -- Fiction.

9780811227629 (trade pbk.)

Kentoshi. English.

138 p. ; 21 cm.

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.

Dystopian fiction.

Japanese fiction -- Translations into English.

Mitsutani, Margaret.

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