- National Book Award for Translated Literature 2018 · Winner · for the translation by Margaret Mitsutani
The Emissary
献灯使 · Kentōshi
Yoko Tawada (多和田葉子, born 1960)
Translated by Margaret Mitsutani
English editions
In EnglishThe Last Children of Tokyo
Portobello Books · United Kingdom · 2018 · Paperback · 138 pages
The Emissary
New Directions · United States · 24 April 2018 · Paperback · 138 pages
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After a catastrophe Japan has shut itself off, and loanwords, motor vehicles and the web are things of the past. The old have been robbed of death and stay vigorous past a hundred, while the children are born fragile. Yoshiro frets endlessly over his great-grandson Mumei, a sickly, beautiful boy, who as he grows up seems fated to be sent overseas as an envoy.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 265 pages in the original
- Genres
- Speculative (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2014 by Kodansha
- Author's age
- 54 when first published
- ISBN
9784062191920 (original)
9780811227629 (New Directions, United States)
9781846276705 (Portobello Books, United Kingdom)
- More
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