CONTEMPORARY FICTION

If Cats Disappeared from the World

Genki Kawamura

Translated by Eric Selland

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ABOUT THE BOOK

A tender, moving tale of loss and of reaching out to the people we love.

Our narrator’s days are numbered. Estranged from his family and living alone with only his cat, Cabbage, for company, he is unprepared for the doctor’s news that he has only months to live. But before he can tackle his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. And so begins a very strange week…

How do you decide what makes life worth living? What can you do without, and what do you hold dear? If Cats Disappeared from the World is a story of loss and reconciliation, and of one man’s journey to discover what really matters.

DETAILS

Original language
Japanese
Translated by
Eric Selland
First published
2012
Collections
Books in Translation
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
This edition
September 2018
Pages
208
ISBN
9781509889174
Language
en