The Guest Cat Drawn and Quarterly and a wonderful husband who

and a wonderful husband who is a journalist

and often contradictory

including nightingales

Instead they hit home with elegant accuracy – as well as enough cutting sarcasm to make pops step aside

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The Guest Cat Drawn and Quarterly and a wonderful husband whoBy Takeshita Hiraide, translated from the Japanese by Eric Selland A bestseller in France and winner of Japans Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways of living. A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo; they work at home, freelance copy