Guest Cat

Name: Guest Cat
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ISBN: 9780811221504

ISBN-10: 0811221504

ISBN-13: 9780811221504

Edition: 2014

Authors: Takashi Hiraide, Eric Selland

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A bestseller in France 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…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 1/28/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.10" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

Takashi Hiraide was born in Moji, Kitakyushu in 1950. He has published numerous books of poetry as well as several books of genre-bending essays, including one on poetics and baseball. He currently lives in the west suburbs of Tokyo with a cat and his wife, the poet Michiyo Kawano.

Eric Selland lives in Tokyo. He is the author of The Condition of Music, Inventions, and Still Lifes.