Fans of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles will also love If Cats Disappeared from the World. This beautiful tale is translated from the Japanese by Eric Selland, who also translated The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide. Genki Kawamura's If Cats Disappeared from the World is a story of loss and reconciliation, of one man’s journey to discover what really matters in modern life. īecause how do you decide what makes life worth living? How do you separate out what you can do without from what you hold dear? In dealing with the Devil our narrator will take himself – and his beloved cat – to the brink. But before he can set about tackling 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. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s diagnosis that he has only months to live. The narrator can extend his life by a day in exchange for making something disappear from the world. He is approached by the Devil, who makes him an offer (which the Devil is expected to do). A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love. If Cats Disappeared From the World is about the narrator who has recently found out that he is incurably ill and he only has a limited time left.
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