The Emissary
- Kategoria:
- literatura piękna
- Tytuł oryginału:
- 献灯使 [Kentōshi]
- Wydawnictwo:
- New Directions
- Data wydania:
- 2018-04-24
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2018-01-01
- Liczba stron:
- 138
- Czas czytania
- 2 godz. 18 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 9780811227629
- Tłumacz:
- Margaret Mitsutani
- Inne
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.