A moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love.
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? In dealing with the Devil our narrator will take himself – and his beloved cat – to the brink.
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.
This beautiful tale is translated from the Japanese by Eric Selland, who also translated The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide.
'If you're a fan of The Guest Cat (or even just cats generally), you'll love this.' – Sunday Times
© 2018 Macmillan Digital Audio (ספר מוקלט ): 9781509889198
תורגם על ידי : Eric Selland
תאריך הוצאה
ספר מוקלט : 20 בספטמבר 2018
A moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love.
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? In dealing with the Devil our narrator will take himself – and his beloved cat – to the brink.
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.
This beautiful tale is translated from the Japanese by Eric Selland, who also translated The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide.
'If you're a fan of The Guest Cat (or even just cats generally), you'll love this.' – Sunday Times
© 2018 Macmillan Digital Audio (ספר מוקלט ): 9781509889198
תורגם על ידי : Eric Selland
תאריך הוצאה
ספר מוקלט : 20 בספטמבר 2018
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דירוג כולל מבוסס על דירוגי 1008
מחמם לב
מעורר מחשבה
חמים ונעים
הורד את האפליקציה כדי להצטרף לשיחה ולהוסיף ביקורות.
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8 בפבר׳ 2024
Reflections on the life that was and/or could be following a terminal illness. We meet a person who receives bitter news that he has an incurable disease and from here on, begins a journey of self-discovery about life and its meanings, the people, the environment, the concepts we - the humans - invented, the plants and the animals (mainly cats). Many reflections on what we did right? What did we do wrong? How did we not understand things then, as we understand them today? Life, death and our loss from the world (and perhaps, also the world's loss from us) and more... He asks and ponders many philosophical and weighty issues. The devil and the things that follow him, I recognize as a hallucination of the character following the illness and nothing else.
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