Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Guest CatCondition: NewISBN-10: 0811221504EAN: 9780811221504ISBN: 9780811221504Publisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/11/2014Description: 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."Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 180mmItem Length: 130mmItem Width: 13mmItem Weight: 136gAuthor: Takashi HiraideTranslator: Eric SellandContributor: Eric Selland (Translated by)Genre: FictionRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Guest Cat
Title: The Guest Cat
ISBN-10: 0811221504
EAN: 9780811221504
ISBN: 9780811221504
Release Date: 03/11/2014
Release Year: 2014
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Translator: Eric Selland
Contributor: Eric Selland (Translated by)
Book Title: Guest Cat
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 0.4 in
Topic: Family Life, General
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 4.6 Oz
Item Length: 7.1 in
Author: Takashi Hiraide
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
