The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide [November 21, 1950 ] ". . .[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."
A Google blurb:
"The novel brims with new small joys and many moments of staggering poetic beauty, but then something happens…. "
Despite all this, we might still give the book --
a chance.
Despite all this, we might still give the book --
a chance.
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