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The Emissary
by

Yōko Tawada,

Margaret Mitsutani (Translator)

K.'s review

Jan 08, 2019

really liked it

bookshelves: post-apocalyptic, read-in-translation, magical-realism

All those words — dead ones and the ones that weren’t quite dead but that nobody ever used anymore — were stored in Great-grandpa’s head. He was always wanting to throw out old crockery or toys they didn’t use anymore, yet he kept all the old useless words in the drawers of his brain, never letting them go.

Light on plot, but very heavy on Feelings, imo. Review to come.

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Reading Progress

January 7, 2019 – Started Reading

January 7, 2019 – Shelved

January 7, 2019 –

page 53

38.41% ""[There was] "Off-line Day,” to commemorate the day the Internet had died (“off-line” being written with Chinese characters meaning ‘Honorable-Woman-Naked-Obscenity).""

January 8, 2019 – Shelved as: post-apocalyptic

January 8, 2019 – Shelved as: read-in-translation

January 8, 2019 – Shelved as: magical-realism

January 8, 2019 – Finished Reading