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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 prompted 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 fade, a secretive organisation embarks on an audacious plan to find a cure - might Yoshiro's great-grandson be the key to saving the last children of Tokyo?
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I think if you have no prior knowledge of Japan's history or language you'll struggle with this. My main problem is nothing really happens and it goes off into so many tangents that don't really do much for the story. I'd loved to have known more about the actual world than so much about characters we never get to see again.
It does seem a little wishy washy, artsy fartsy especially at the end. Just not for me in general.
I'm willing to congratulate good descriptive writing which there is in this book, just too much of it.
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