Mornings With My Cat Mii

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<p><b>A beloved Japanese modern classic about our special connection with cats and how they can change our lives over the course of a lifetime</b><br><br>'Cat lovers, prepare to weep' <b><i>The Times</i></b><br>'A cat classic' <b>Catherine Lacey</b><br>'Profoundly real... and beautifully written'<b> Elif Batuman</b><br>'Aglow with incidental joys' <b>Rivka Galchen</b><br><b>*Winner of the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Translation Prize 2026*</b><br><br>On a cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry. She follows the sound to the banks of Tokyo's Tamagawa River and finds a newborn kitten dangling from a fence, abandoned. Overcome by tender affection, she takes the cat back to the small apartment she shares with her husband and christens her Mii: so begins an unshakeable bond.<br><br>Over the next twenty years, we follow Inaba, a poet and novelist by moonlight, as she pursues quiet solitude and a room of her own. Through it all, Mii, a fiercely independent creature in her own right, is her confidante and muse.<br><br>This beloved Japanese modern classic is not just a love letter to companionship: it's a poignant, searching meditation on the forces that enable us to connect, to create and to build a life.<br><br>'Reveals the profound respect, and compassion, that a friendship with an animal can inspire' <b>Sigrid Nunez, <i>New Yorker</i></b><br><br><b>Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori<br><br>**Readers ADORE Mii**</b><br>'A lovely little gem'<br>'Gentle and enchanting and had me in floods by the end'<br>'Absolutely beautiful'<br>'Sweet and heartbreaking'<br>'Told with grace, beauty and love'</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781529922813

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

191 x 129 x 20 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House UK Ltd