The Cat and the City
The Cat and the City A BBC Radio 2 Book Club PickOne of the Independent's best June debuts 'A love letter to Japan and its literature.' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan 'If you're itching to read a new novel by…
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The Cat and the City
A BBC Radio 2 Book Club PickOne of the Independent's best June debuts 'A love letter to Japan and its literature.' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan 'If you're itching to read a new novel by David Mitchell, then good news; he has one out in July. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected ways.But the city is changing. If you can't wait even that long, try this.' The Times _______________In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys.
The cat orbits Tokyo's denizens, drawing them ever closer. As it does, it pushes her to the margins where she chances upon a series of apparent strangers - from a homeless man squatting in an abandoned hotel, to a shut-in hermit afraid to leave his house, to a convenience store worker searching for love. 'Masterfully weaves together seemingly disparate threads to conjure up a vivid tapestry of Tokyo; its glory, its shame, its characters, and a calico cat.' David Peace, author of THE TOKYO TRILOGY