The Guest Cat

by Takashi Hiraide

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811221504
• ISBN13: 9780811221504
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 6.9"