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The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide: New
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Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- Publication Date
- 2014-01-28
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN
- 9780811221504
Informazioni su questo prodotto
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811221504
ISBN-13
9780811221504
eBay Product ID (ePID)
159805872
Product Key Features
Book Title
Guest Cat
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
Family Life, General
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
4.6 Oz
Item Length
7.1 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2013-046516
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
What initially reads like free association turns out to be a near-microscopic record of emotion and phenomena., The best novels are often the ones that change us. Over time, they stay with us- like small miracles. Takashi Hiraide, the Japanese poet and novelist, blindsided me- he shows himself to be a poet of the highest grade. A rare treasure, beautiful and profound; whether you're a cat lover or not, don't pass this one up. ultimately, it's about what it means to love and to lose. Even dog lovers will relate., It's clear there is a tradition of literary works centering on orfeaturing cats in modern Japanese, and we now have from New Directions atranslation of a splendid addition to that list. (...) a work ofsubtleties revealed only with repeated readings. I recommend itunreservedly to the general reader., A wonderful tale about the desire to possess and the pain of absence. And such writing! Precise, delicate, enchanting., An unusually intimate, detailed and vivid picture of a place that is simultaneously private and open., It's clear there is a tradition of literary works centering on or featuring cats in modern Japanese, and we now have from New Directions a translation of a splendid addition to that list. (...) a work of subtleties revealed only with repeated readings. I recommend it unreservedly to the general reader., A wonderful tale about the desire to possess and the pain of absence. And such writing! Precise, delicate, enchanting., An unusually intimate, detailed and vivid picture of a place that is simultaneously private and open., It's clear there is a tradition of literary works centering on or featuring cats in modern Japanese, and we now have from New Directions a translation of a splendid addition to that list. (...) a work of subtleties revealed only with repeated readings. I recommend it unreservedly to the general reader.
Dewey Decimal
895.63/5
Synopsis
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.", 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."
LC Classification Number
PL852.I663N413 2014
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