The Guest Cat By Takashi Hiraide, Eric Selland (Translator) The Guest Cat is an

The Guest Cat is an exceptionally moving and beautiful novel about the nature of life and the way it feels to live it

In this repressively pious society where gold is worshipped second only to God

experimental form and savage and dark honesty

who kidnaps him and sells him to one such dog sled

This is the only place on earth where man is more often prey than predator

The Guest Cat By Takashi Hiraide, Eric Selland (Translator) The Guest Cat is anA couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have very much to say to one another. One day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. She is a beautiful creature. She leaves, but the next day comes again, and then again and again. New, small joys accompany the cat; the days have more light and colour. Life suddenly seems to have more promise for the