Yoko Tawada: The Last Children of Tokyo [2018] paperback Condition:Very Good 'Irish author Neil Hegarty proves

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Yoko Tawada: The Last Children of Tokyo [2018] paperback Condition:Very Good 'Irish author Neil Hegarty provesYoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old elderly'; men and women who remember a time before the air and the sea were poisoned, before terrible catastrophe promted Japan to shut itself off from the rest of the world. He may live for decades yet, but he knows his beloved great grandson born frail and prone to sickness might not survive to adulthood. Day after day, it takes all of Yoshiro's