Book ‘The Guest Cat’ by Takashi Hiraide ISBN: 9780811221504

Translated from the Japanese by Eric Selland.
By the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, 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.
With its very particular feline grace, The Guest Cat won Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award and became a bestseller in France.