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Loading... The Guest Cat (original 2001; edition 2014)by Takashi Hiraide (Author)
Work InformationThe Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide (2001)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is a meandering book, a bit like the Lightning Alley where the narrator lives for most of the book. It goes one way for a while, then turns and goes in another direction, and though the path connecting them is there, you can't see the start of the journey once you've been traveling the path for a little while. I enjoyed the poetry of the text the most in the first half of the book, but in the second half the narration style changes a little and there is more obvious 4th wall breaking, which I didn't enjoy as much. My third cat-centric book in a row. This was a slower read. The writing is thoughtful. The characters and locations are written with delicate and deliberate strokes. It was beautiful to read but, in the end, didn't capture me as much as I had hoped it would. The glimpses into of the life of this couple (from the husband's perspective) are written with gentleness but not enough intimacy. I didn't ever feel that I knew them. That said, I *was* able to identify with the couple and with Chibi (the cat) as my own freak Sigrid has come to be a part of our household very much on her own terms. no reviews | add a review
The Guest Cat is a subtly moving novel that conveys deeply felt ways of being. Two writers, a young couple, enjoy their quiet cottage in a leafy part of Tokyo: they work at home as freelance editors. One day a cat invites herself into their small kitchen. She is a beautiful creature. she leaves, but comes again, and then again and again. New, small joys, radiated by the fleeting loveliness of life, accompany the cat; the days take on more light and color. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)895.63Literature Literature of other languages Asian (east and south east) languages Japanese Japanese fictionLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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