The Guest Cat
by Takashi Hiraide | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0811221504 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0811221504 Global Overview for this book
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Cordelia-anne
of Decatur, Georgia USA on 11/17/2019
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
Cordelia-anne of Decatur, Georgia USA on 11/17/2019 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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I loved the art and reading the back cover made me interested so this book is now my guest.
From Amazon:
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 and experiences,whose splintering effect is enacted via a unique combination of speed and minutiae."
From Amazon:
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 and experiences,whose splintering effect is enacted via a unique combination of speed and minutiae."
I am sure this beautifully designed book will attract a reader as it attracted me. Unfortunately, I could not get into the writing. This is after all a translation from the Japanese. So I have decided to send this book out to find its next reader.
Journal Entry 3 by Cordelia-anne at Mary Scott Nature Park Little Free Library Charter 51009 in Atlanta, Georgia USA on Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Cordelia-anne at Mary Scott Nature Park Little Free Library Charter 51009 in Atlanta, Georgia USA on Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Released 2 yrs ago (4/20/2022 UTC) at Mary Scott Nature Park Little Free Library Charter 51009 in Atlanta, Georgia USA
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