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The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide, Eric Selland is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Guest Cat about?

A wonderful sui generis novel about a visiting cat who brings joy into a couple's life in Tokyo 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 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.... As Kenzaburo Oe has remarked, Takashi Hiraide's work "really shines." His poetry, which is remarkably cross-hatched with beauty, has been acclaimed here for "its seemingly endless string of shape-shifting objects

Who reads The Guest Cat?

Author

Takashi Hiraide, Eric Selland

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781447279419

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, World Fiction

Rating

3.51 / 5 (287 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13