The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have very much to say to one another. One day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. She is a beautiful creature. She leaves, but the next day comes again, and then again and again. New,...
The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have very much to say to one another. One day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. She is a beautiful creature. She leaves, but the next day comes again, and then again and again. New, small joys accompany the cat; the days have more light and colour. Life suddenly seems to have more promise for the husband and wife; they go walking together, talk and share stories of the cat and its little ways, play in the nearby Garden. But then something happens that will change everything again. The Guest Cat is an exceptionally moving and beautiful novel about the nature of life and the way it feels to live it. Written by Japanese poet and novelist Takashi Hiraide, the book won Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, and was a bestseller in France and America.
作者简介
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Takashi Hiraide was born in Moji, Kitakyushu in 1950. He has published numerous books of poetry as well as several books of genre-bending essays, including one on poetics and baseball. He currently lives in the west suburbs of Tokyo with a cat and his wife, the poet Michiyo Kawano.
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my wife has an innate connection with all living things. even now she would turn on the TV to a nature program and could correctly name all of the animals, even rare species in faraway countries. In my wife's case, what I mean by not liking cats is something of an entirely different order than her husband's attitude, since all her life she had engaged with a variety of animals with the same leve of interest. So in other words, she did not have my sort of preference of dogs over cats. (查看原文)
In his discussion of fate, it seems Machiavelli thought that Fortuna dominates at least half our lives, while in the remaining haf or a little less, human strength and competence attempts to counteract it. he imagined fate as a goddess, capicious and fickle, or as river, which could flood at any moment. (查看原文)
0 有用 Osciii° 2020-08-12 14:29:06
始终下不了决心养猫的原因就是太害怕它离开我。与其那时痛不欲生不如一开始它就没有来过。
0 有用 米s酱 2020-11-29 04:42:29
记录一件关于这本书的趣事：几年前在书店看到，想要买给身边的爱猫人士作为圣诞礼物；出于好奇自己也买了一本。还好赶在圣诞节之前看完了这本书，于是礼物也不用送了，到现在这两本书还乖乖躺在书柜里。
0 有用 苏三家的小黑板 2018-02-16 15:04:47
和隔壁小猫的羁绊，心态的变化很有带入感。但印象最深的却是作者和太太都在窗前桌边伏案工作，一抬头看见明月当空的场景，日本人对月色的描写真是没话说，一如，月色真美。