![]() ![]() ![]() Fans of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles will also surely 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. 'At first, If Cats Disappeared from the World feels as light and puzzling as a fairy tale, but then, steadily, chapter by chapterusing nothing more than conversation, memory, and a winning narrators searching, sensitive thought experimentsit raises its cosmic stakes higher than any thriller. ![]() 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. If the IRS assesses both the failure-to-file and a failure-to-pay penalty in one month, you will owe a total penalty of 5. 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. For example, let’s say you didn’t file or pay your taxes of 5,000. 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. The international phenomenon that has sold more than two million copies, If Cats Disappeared from the World-now a Japanese film-is a heartwarming, funny, and. 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. A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love, of one man's journey to discover what really matters in modern life. ![]()
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