Descripción
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.
Detalles
| Formato | Tapa suave |
| Número de Páginas | 128 |
| Lenguaje | Inglés |
| Editorial | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Fecha de Publicación | 2018-04-24 |
| Dimensiones | 7.7" x 5.1" x 0.5" pulgadas |
| Letra Grande | No |
| Con Ilustraciones | No |
| Premios | National Book Awards 2018 (Winner) |
Acerca del Autor
Tawada, Yoko
Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German, and has published dozens of books--stories, novels, poems, plays, essays--in each language. She has received numerous awards for her writing including the Akutagawa Prize, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Kleist Prize, and the Goethe Medal. New Directions publishes eight of her books, including The Emissary, which won the inaugural National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2018.Mitsutani, Margaret
Margaret Mitsutani is a translator of Yoko Tawada (sharing her National Book Award) and Kenzaburo Oe (Japan's 1994 Nobel Prize laureate).Garantía & Otros
| Garantía: | 30 dias por defectos de fabrica |
| Peso: | 0.159 kg |
| SKU: | 9780811227629 |
| Publicado en Unimart.com: | 28/12/23 |
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