This episode, we review Yoko Tawada's speculative fiction dystopia The Emissary, winner of the National Book Award. We discuss the novel's unconventional structure, the remembered past vs fact, and the upending of the natural order in post-cataclysmic Japan.

This is the last novel in our Postmodern Japanese Fiction series. Find our previous episodes for our discussion on Kafka on the Shore and Convenience Store Woman.

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