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Genki Kawamura

If Cats Disappeared From the World

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Our narrator's days are numbered. 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. 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. And so begins a very bizarre week . . .
Because 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. 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.
This beautiful tale is translated from the Japanese by Eric Selland, who also translated The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide. Fans of The Guest Cat will also surely…
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  • Frieta Andhitashared an impression4 years ago
    👍Worth reading

    its a heartwarming book

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    • mhas quoted18 hours ago
      “Whenever I watch a movie with a sad ending I always watch it one more time. Do you know why?”

      This time I knew the answer. It’s the one thing I remembered well.

      It’s something I was hoping for during the whole plane ride back from Buenos Aires, and even for a while after we broke up.

      “Yeah, I know.”

      “OK, so what’s the answer?”

      “Because you’re hoping that maybe it’ll have a happy ending the next time.”
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      • mhas quoted18 hours ago
        Sometimes, when you rewatch a film after a long time, it makes a totally different impression than it did the first time you saw it. Of course, the movie hasn’t changed. It’s you that’s changed, and seeing the same film again makes that impossible to forget.
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        • mhas quoted18 hours ago
          To live means: to cry and shout, to love, to do silly things, to feel sadness and joy, to even experience horrible, frightening things . . . and to laugh. Beautiful songs, beautiful scenery, feeling nauseous, people singing, planes flying across the sky, the thundering hooves of horses, mouth-watering pancakes, the endless darkness of space, cowboys firing their pistols at dawn . . .
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