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HARRIET LEE MERRION

Portobello Books

Cover for ‘The Last Children of Tokyo’ by Yoko Tawada, published by Portobello Books

The novel is set in a Japan that has been devastated by an unspecified man-made global catastrophe. Tokyo is too heavily polluted to be habitable. The city’s population live in the suburbs. Over the last century, successive generations of children have been born increasingly feeble and prone to illness, while the aged-elderly continue to live with undiminished vitality.