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Original Title:	猫の客 [Neko no kyaku]
ISBN:	0811221504 (ISBN13: 9780811221504)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Tokyo(Japan)

The Guest Cat

Takashi Hiraide

Paperback | Pages: 140 pages

Rating: 3.53 | 15408 Users | 2105 Reviews

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A bestseller in France and winner of Japan’s Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways of living. A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo; they work at home, freelance copy-editing; they no longer have very much to say to one another. But one day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. It leaves, but the next day comes again, and then again and again. Soon they are buying treats for the cat and enjoying talks about the animal and all its little ways. Life suddenly seems to have more promise for the husband and wife — the days have more light and color. The novel brims with new small joys and many moments of staggering poetic beauty, but then something happens….


As Kenzaburo Oe has remarked, Takashi Hiraide’s work "really shines." His poetry, which is remarkably cross-hatched with beauty, has been acclaimed here for "its seemingly endless string of shape-shifting objects and experiences,whose splintering effect is enacted via a unique combination of speed and minutiae."

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Title	:	The Guest Cat
Author	:	Takashi Hiraide
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 140 pages
Published	:	January 28th 2014 by New Directions (first published 2001)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Animals. Cats. Contemporary

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Ratings: 3.53 From 15408 Users | 2105 Reviews

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(2.5) Sigh. Such a disappointment. As a cat-loving freelance writer who aspires to read more literature in translation, I thought from the blurb that this book could not be more perfect for me. I bought it in a charity shop one afternoon and started reading right away. Its only 140 pages, so I finished within 24 hours, but felt at a distance from the story the whole time.Part of it might be the translation the translators notes at the end explain some useful context about the late 1980s



Appreciate the ephemeral, that is, everything in your life.

There's no way to be sure just how much the translator is responsible for my not liking this book, but he may be a large part of the reason I finally took the book back to the library about two-thirds of the way through it. The early promise of simple elegance never gets beyond precious word choice, soggy subtlety, and vapid characters. I was aching for light and color, for a heartbeat that never came.

OK, I admit it. I love cats and I was snookered into this one mainly by the cover and the review wasn't bad at all. It's kind of like buying wine by the label...if it's cute, I buy it! Boy, can you get stuck! In this case, once again, I got stuck. I just didn't get it! It was NOT at all what I was hoping for. Didn't like the writing, didn't like the setting (very confusing descriptions), the characters were less than interesting and the cat was not appealing at all! That's saying a lot from a

I am cycling off a Postal Book Group I participated in from 2015-2019, and The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide was my last read. It started through the Books on the Nightstand Goodreads group, and if you listened to that podcast (R.I.P.) you know that started a while ago!A married couple lives in a guest house on a larger estate and the slim novel is more about how they relate to the architecture and light of their house, the seasons, other people, Chibi the cat, and so on. This is another

I did not enjoy or get anything out of this book. I see someone at Amazon is going through the negative reviews and flagging them as "unhelpful" -- well that in itself is unhelpful, because the book is definitely not above reproach. One of my two stars is because, given all the praise and honors "The Guest Cat" has garnered, I wonder if most of it is lost in translation, not because of any failing on the part of the translator, but as a result of the material. I am familiar with Japanese