Lantern Offerer

献灯使

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, Tanizaki Junichiro Prize, and Izumi Kyoka Prize.
A Japanese female writer who is closer to the Nobel Prize for Literature than Haruki Murakami,
An unprecedented soft utopia, a brilliant work praised by professors from the University of Tokyo!
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【Content Introduction】
"The old man has not regained his youth, but the radioactive material has taken away his ability to die."
After the nuclear disaster, Japan was locked down, with foreign words and the internet wiped out. Elderly people, deprived of their right to die, remained healthy and continued to work, while young people, once the embodiment of hope, became increasingly ill, their lives hanging by a thread. Elderly people, possessing immortality, were doomed to watch their children and grandchildren die...
Faced with a stagnant world, the old people are determined to break the remnants of the closed-door policy and save the children. They set up a mysterious organization and selected envoys from modern Japan to the Tang Dynasty - "Lantern Envoys" to re-establish connection with the world.
The protagonist Yoshiro's descendant, Wuming, a clever young man with the softness of an octopus and the voice of a white crane, is the perfect candidate. But can Wuming complete the mission, survive the apocalypse, and await the arrival of a new world?
This book contains a total of 5 works on the same theme.
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【Editor's Recommendation】
❄ Tawada Yoko, a triple winner of the Akutagawa Prize, Tanizaki Junichiro Prize, and Izumi Kyoka Prize, and a Nobel Prize favorite,
Weaving a web of "words with soul", offering a requiem of sorrow and anger, and asking what the hope of the new generation is.
As Japan's most celebrated transnational writer, Tawada, a member of the "world-based" genre, is considered a contemporary spiritual heir to Beckett, Joyce, and Kafka. She excels in employing unique techniques in writing, constantly creating new possibilities for expression within language.
“Language and Chinese characters are my happy companions, so I am passionate about playing with words.”
"Lantern Envoy", "Tang Envoy", "Kentoshi", puns, Chinese character structures... When we uncover the mysteries hidden behind these words, can we also understand Tawada's deep love for humanity?
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❄ “Humans do not exist to function.”
Delayed retirement? Never retire! Unprecedented! The setting of [the most hellish]!
The immortal "young old man", the frail "glass child",
Use a future that is not fabricated out of thin air to question the "quiet and painful" modern society.
——After being devastated by a disaster, if all the hidden dangers erupt on one generation at the same time, how can they survive?
After the disaster, the Japanese island faced a state of isolation and confinement; the original customs and beliefs were all turned upside down and collapsed; the elderly, deprived of the right to die, continued to work non-stop, while the young people who once represented hope and vitality continued to fall ill... Escape, or sacrifice?
Tawada skillfully uses a magnifying glass to illuminate a world that is both strange and real. The world in the mirror is a parallel time and space created when unacknowledged hidden dangers in reality erupt.
Every reader can constantly think about the future of mankind while reading.
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❄ What are you doing during the apocalypse? Are you busy? Can you save the world?
The past world will not come back, and the dead species cannot be reborn. The only thing you can do is stay with the people who love you.
——Every romantic wasteland restart plan you can imagine is in this book.
Great-grandfather and great-grandmother, more than ever before, took on the task of caring for the newborn;
On the night of the full moon when he turned fifteen, the boy turned into a girl as white as a crane. The women who fell in love at first sight established new families in the shelter.
After the devastating flood, the animals built a new Tower of Babel, and new humans are awakening from the sea...
It doesn’t matter, because one day in the future we will meet on earth.
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❄ Renowned translator Lake and book designer Xihe present this dreamy hardcover book with a handy format design:
Even if the world of disaster is stagnant, you can still find a glimmer of light in the darkness.
In the panic world of swaying reality created by Tawada, sad romance and sad dreams still flow.
It's the last snowflake that fell on Earth, the fragrance that emanated from another world, the can that sealed the universe...
The translator, Lake, writes with both emotion and restraint, delicately interpreting the multiple complexities of Tawada's world and skillfully recreating Tawada's favorite word games.
Hardcover with double cover, convenient size: 110*185mm, the text is made of smooth-grained paper, easy to turn and does not yellow.
Through reading, you can reach a place that only books can reach.
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【Celebrity Recommendation】
A shining work. A true dystopian novel depicts the living "present" and the "future" that is not fictional. --(Japan) Mitsuru Numano The physicality of the language in Tawada's works, and the textual performance that can shake the meaning of the language itself, convey a rare power. --(Japan) Hidemi Ozawa lost her perception in seriousness and playfulness, and that sense of insecurity made our feet collapse-Tawada just pulled us into her world. --(Japan) Masahiko Abe It has always been like this, no one knows when they will die. Nowadays, some people even believe that the purpose of life is to stay as young as possible. Therefore, we struggle all day long with how to get old. Modern medicine does not tell us how to get old. I think that old people who can't die, like those in the novel, will find it more difficult to grasp the boundaries of life than us. --(Japan) Yoko Tawada Every word and sentence in Tawada's works seems to be able to swallow people. --Reader comments

2025-01-01

广西师范大学出版社

wild spring

272

9787559868558