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Mornings With My Cat Mii
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The perfect Christmas gift for cat lovers.It was the end of summer, 1977. I found a cat, a little ball of fluff. A teeny tiny baby kitten.A beloved Japanese modern classic about our special connection with cats, and how they can change our lives over the course of a lifetime.For the last twenty years, Japanese readers have been falling in love with Mayumi Inaba’s story of life with her cat Mii, after she rescued her as a newborn kitten from a riverbank in Tokyo.We follow their everyday joys through the seasons, as Mayumi develops her career as a writer and finds her feet in life, with her small feline always at her side.Mornings With My Cat Mii lovingly chronicles Mayumi and Mii’s unshakeable twenty-year bond, meditating on solitude, companionship, the writing life, and how we care for our cats as they grow older.Translated into English for the first time by world-renowned translator Ginny Tapley Takemori, this beloved Japanese modern classic is a celebration of how a cat can change our lives forever.’Gentle, meditative… Cat lovers, prepare to weep’ The Times, Book of the MonthTranslated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
Additional information
| Weight | 0.259 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.9 × 13.8 × 20.5 cm |
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| Format | Hardback |
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| Pages | 192 |
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| Year Published | 2024-10-3 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1787304418 |
| About The Author | Mayumi Inaba (1950–2014) was a multiple prize-winning writer and poet. She made her debut in 1973 with the short story The Pain of a Blue Shadow, and went on to write many novels and collections while working as an editor, including The Sea Staghorn and To the Peninsula, for which she won several awards, among them the Kawabata Yasunari Prize and the Tanizaki Jun'ichiro Prize. She was well known for her love of cats. |
| Review Quote | [A] gentle meditative narrative… Inaba muses on her own life…and has to confront mortality… Cat lovers, prepare to weep |
| Other text | Skillfully translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori… Inaba has a poet’s eye for the natural world… The memoir documents not only one woman’s personal journey, but also the ineffable bond between human and animal as Inaba becomes guardian to Mii, then caretaker and, finally, mourner. |
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