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. 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. 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. Like a padding cat or the shadow of death, Genki Kawamura's book snuck up on me the next thing I knew, I was crying." - Robin Sloan, New York Times bestselling author of Mr.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. "At first, If Cats Disappeared from the World feels as light and puzzling as a fairy tale, but then, steadily, chapter by chapter-using nothing more than conversation, memory, and a winning narrator's searching, sensitive thought experiments-it raises its cosmic stakes higher than any thriller. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough Like a padding cat or the shadow of death, Genki Kawamura's book snuck up on me the next thing I knew, I was crying." - Robin Sloan, New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Praise for If Cats Disappeared from the World: Genki Kawamura's timeless tale is a moving story of loss and reconciliation, of one man's journey to discover what really matters most in life. With each object that disappears the postman reflects on the life he's lived, his joys and regrets, and the people he's loved and lost. But before he can tackle his bucket list, the Devil appears to make him an offer: In exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, our narrator will get one extra day of life. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage to keep him company, he was unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. The international phenomenon that has sold over a million copies in Japan, If Cats Disappeared from the World-now a Japanese film-is a funny, heartwarming, and profound meditation on the meaning of life.
"Brian Nishii narrates this imaginative tale set in Japan about the complexities of death, life, and cats.A brief, charming parable." - AudioFile Magazine
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