The Guest Cat: Takashi Hiraide (ENG)

Titel: The Guest Cat
Auteur: Takashi Hiraide
ISBN: 9781447279402
Conditie: Als nieuw

In English
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/NL The Guest Cat is een prachtige korte roman over een kat die sporadisch op bezoek komt bij een stel in Tokyo en hen veel plezier bezorgd. Een bestseller en winnaar van de Japanse literaire prijs Kiyama Shohei.

/FR "Le Chat invité" est un magnifique court roman sur un chat qui rend visite sporadiquement à un couple à Tokyo et leur apporte beaucoup de joie. Best-seller et lauréat du prix littéraire japonais Kiyama Shohei.

/ENG A wonderful sui generis novel about a visiting cat who brings joy into a couple’s life in Tokyo A bestseller and winner of Japan’s Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways of living. A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo; they work at home, freelance copy-editing; they no longer have very much to say to one another. But one day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. It leaves, but the next day comes again, and then again and again. Soon they are buying treats for the cat and enjoying talks about the animal and all its little ways. Life suddenly seems to have more promise for the husband and wife ― the days have more light and color. The novel brims with new small joys and many moments of staggering poetic beauty, but then something happens….