“We simply couldn’t bear it” – The Last Children of Tokyo by Yoko Tawada

"Set at some fuzzy indistinct point in the future in which old people no longer die and children are as frail as butterfly wings, the loose narrative is mainly centred on Yoshiro who is main carer of his great grandson Mumei. Over a rambling and discursive 144 pages, we get a glimpse into the minutiae of their day to day life, as well as brief forays into how their life came to be..."

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