The Guest Cat

Name: The Guest Cat
ISBN: 9780811221504

Takashi Hiraide, Eric Selland (translation)

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A young couple working as editors from their home in a quiet part of Tokyo begin to see things differently when a lovely cat enters their lives uninvited.

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Takashi Hiraide was born in Moji, Kitakyushu in 1950. Hiraide has written numerous books of poetry & several books of genre-bending essays, including one on poetics & baseball. He currently lives in the west suburbs of Tokyo with a cat & his wife, the poet Michiyo Kawano. His novel, The Guest Cat, is a New York Times Bestseller.

Eric Selland lives in Tokyo. He is the author of The Condition of Music, Inventions, & Still Lifes. Selland is co-editing an anthology of twentieth-century Japanese experimental poetry with poet & translator Sawako Nakayasu, which is scheduled to appear from New Directions Books in 2022. He makes his living as an independent translator of Japanese economic research reports.