Yoko Tawada: The Last Children of Tokyo [2018] paperback Condition:Very Good this memoir is a testament

this memoir is a testament to love that survives despite all odds

Xingyin was unaware she was being hidden from the Celestial Emperor - who exiled her mother for stealing the elixir of immortality

undoubtedly neither a plus one nor 'the one'

and packed with fascinating case studies

goes for late-night Chinese with a detective

Yoko Tawada: The Last Children of Tokyo [2018] paperback Condition:Very Good this memoir is a testamentYoshiro 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