The goodbye cat : seven cat stories / Hiro Arikawa ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.

By:

Arikawa, Hiro, 1972-

Contributor(s):

Gabriel, Philip, 1953-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publication details: [Toronto] : Viking, 2023.Description: 278 p. : ill. ; 19 cmISBN:

9780735248670 (hardcover)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Short stories.

DDC classification:

[Fic] 23

Summary: Against the backdrop of Japan's changing seasons, we meet Spin, a kitten rescued from the recycling bin, whose playful nature and simple needs teach an anxious father how to parent his own human baby; a colony of wild cats on a holiday island who show a young boy not to stand in nature's way; a cat whose undying devotion to their charismatic but uncaring father enriches a family; and an elderly cat who hatches a plan to pass into the next world as a spirit so that he and his owner may be in each other's lives for ever.

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Against the backdrop of Japan's changing seasons, we meet Spin, a kitten rescued from the recycling bin, whose playful nature and simple needs teach an anxious father how to parent his own human baby; a colony of wild cats on a holiday island who show a young boy not to stand in nature's way; a cat whose undying devotion to their charismatic but uncaring father enriches a family; and an elderly cat who hatches a plan to pass into the next world as a spirit so that he and his owner may be in each other's lives for ever.

Translated from the Japanese.

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