TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hiraide,Takashi
AU  - Selland,Eric
TI  - The guest cat
SN  - 0811221504 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - New Directions Publishing Corporation
KW  - Authors
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Cats
KW  - Tokyo (Japan)
N1  - "A New Directions paperbook original (NDP1274)"--Title page verso; Translation of: Neko no Kyaku
N2  - The Guest Cat is a subtly moving novel that conveys deeply felt ways of being. Two writers, a young couple, enjoy their quiet cottage in a leafy part of Tokyo: they work at home as freelance editors. One day a cat invites herself into their small kitchen. She is a beautiful creature. she leaves, but comes again, and then again and again. New, small joys, radiated by the fleeting loveliness of life, accompany the cat; the days take on more light and color
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