Kirjahaku

INDIE BESTSELLERA Must-Read: The New Yorker - Literary Hub - The Millions - Kirkus Reviews - Shelf Awareness - BookBub"A great love story." --Sigrid Nunez, The New Yorker "I have never read a book quite like this. A] profoundly real, specific, moving, and beautifully written story." ―Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or Mornings Without Mii is a beloved Japanese modern classic: a deeply affecting story of solitude, independence, writing, grief, love, and life alongside a cat. On a cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry carried by the breeze off Tokyo's Tamagawa River. She follows the sound to the riverbank and finds a newborn kitten only the size of her palm dangling from a fence, abandoned. Overcome by tender affection, she takes the cat back to the small apartment she shares with her husband and christens her Mii: so begins an ineffable bond. Over the next twenty years, we follow Inaba, a poet and novelist by moonlight, as she pursues quiet, solitude, and a room of her own. Through it all, her cat, a fiercely independent creature in her own right, is her confidante and muse. From the late Mayumi Inaba, a winner of the Kawabata Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, Mornings Without Mii is not just a love letter to companionship: it's a poignant, searching meditation on the forces that enable us to connect, to create, and to build a life.

The perfect gift for cat lovers, now in paperback: a beloved Japanese modern classic about our special connection with cats, and how they can change our lives over the course of a lifetime‘Heartwarming...a beautiful read for cat lovers everywhere’ My Weekly'A great love story... reveals the profound respect, and compassion, that a friendship with an animal can inspire in a human being' Sigrid Nunez, New YorkerIt was the end of summer, 1977. I found a cat, a little ball of fluff. A teeny tiny baby kitten.The Japanese poet Mayumi Inaba first encountered her adorable cat Mii when she rescued her as a kitten from a riverbank in Tokyo. Mornings With My Cat Mii is the story of their cherished life together. We follow their everyday joys through the seasons, as Mayumi develops her career as a writer and finds her feet in life, with her small feline always at her side.Mayumi lovingly chronicles their unshakeable bond, meditating on companionship, how we care for our cats as they grow older and how they care for us in return. This beloved modern classic is a celebration of our special connection with cats, and how a cat can change our lives forever.‘Beautiful… Inaba is writing about love, the sort of love one could equally have for a human companion’ Nicky Harman, Books on Asia Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori**Readers ADORE Mii**‘A lovely little gem’‘Gentle and enchanting and had me in floods by the end’‘Absolutely beautiful'‘Sweet and heartbreaking’‘This book was just so pure and beautiful’‘Told with grace, beauty and love’

'Gentle, meditative... Cat lovers, prepare to weep' THE TIMES, Book of the MonthIt was the end of summer, 1977. I found a cat, a little ball of fluff. A teeny tiny baby kitten.A beloved Japanese modern classic about our special connection with cats, and how they can change our lives over the course of a lifetime.For the last twenty years, Japanese readers have been falling in love with Mayumi Inaba’s story of life with her cat Mii, after she rescued her as a newborn kitten from a riverbank in Tokyo.We follow their everyday joys through the seasons, as Mayumi develops her career as a writer and finds her feet in life, with her small feline always at her side.Mornings With My Cat Mii lovingly chronicles Mayumi and Mii’s unshakeable twenty-year bond, meditating on solitude, companionship, the writing life, and how we care for our cats as they grow older.Translated into English for the first time by world-renowned translator Ginny Tapley Takemori, this beloved Japanese modern classic is a celebration of how a cat can change our lives forever.Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori** Readers ADORE Mornings with My Cat Mii ** ‘I cried. Books rarely make me cry ... but this one was absolutely beautiful regardless. It made me reflect on grief, and love, and how to love is to feel intensely (for better or for worse)’‘Gentle and enchanting and had me in floods by the end’‘Loved this! A poetic, beautiful ode to a cat that changed a woman's life ... it's sweet, sad, but ultimately a gorgeous little book … a lovely little gem’‘Sweet and heartbreaking’‘This book was just so pure and beautiful’‘As someone who has been deeply affected by the loss of cats in the past … this was raw, emotional and relatable’‘As a cat mum, this destroyed me’‘Told with grace, beauty and love’