{"product_id":"the-emissary-1","title":"The Emissary","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Emissary\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eYoko Tawada\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780811227629\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNew Directions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2018\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eLater Printing\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e128\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eJapan, 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA delightful, irrepressibly funny book, \u003cem\u003eThe Emissary\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"The Emissary | Yoko Tawada | Paperback | 9780811227629 | Used: Good | Back Stacks I 1771117","offer_id":49550778400920,"sku":"1771117","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51fry57wVTL.jpg?v=1784905558","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/the-emissary-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}