![]() Life suddenly seems to have more promise for the husband and wife - the days have more light and color. Soon they are buying treats for the cat and enjoying talks about the animal and all its little ways. ![]() It leaves, but the next day comes again, and then again and again. But one day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. A couple in their 30s 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. ![]() A best seller 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. ![]()
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