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The Last Children of Tokyo - Tawada, Yoko, and Mitsutani, Margaret (Translated by)
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Yoshiro 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 sagacity to keep Mumei alive. As hopes for Japan's youngest generation ...

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The Last Children of Tokyo 2018, Granta Books, London

ISBN-13: 9781846276705

Paperback