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In Tokyo--, one of the world's largest megacities, --a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. With each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected ways. But the city is changing. As it does, it pushes her to the margins where she chances upon a series of apparent strangers--, from a homeless man squatting in an abandoned hotel, to a shut-in hermit afraid to leave his house, to a convenience store worker searching for love. The cat orbits Tokyo's denizens, drawing them ever closer. In a series of spellbinding, interlocking narratives--, with styles ranging from manga to footnotes--, Nick Bradley has hewn a novel of interplay and estrangement; of survival and self-destruction; of the desire to belong and the need to escape. Formally inventive and slyly political, The Cat and The City is a lithe thrill-ride through the less-glimpsed streets of Tokyo.
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The Cat and the City, Nick Bradley
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- Released
- 2021
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- Title
- The Cat and the City
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Nick Bradley
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books (UK)
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN10
- 1786499916
- ISBN13
- 9781786499912
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Nature, Animals, Contemporary Fiction, Short Stories, Gifts for women, Japan, English Literature, Cats, Magical Realism, Loneliness, Tokyo, Redemption, Salvation, Tattooing, Short Story Novels
- First published
- 2020
- Original title
- The Cat and The City
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- In Tokyo--, one of the world's largest megacities, --a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. With each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected ways. But the city is changing. As it does, it pushes her to the margins where she chances upon a series of apparent strangers--, from a homeless man squatting in an abandoned hotel, to a shut-in hermit afraid to leave his house, to a convenience store worker searching for love. The cat orbits Tokyo's denizens, drawing them ever closer. In a series of spellbinding, interlocking narratives--, with styles ranging from manga to footnotes--, Nick Bradley has hewn a novel of interplay and estrangement; of survival and self-destruction; of the desire to belong and the need to escape. Formally inventive and slyly political, The Cat and The City is a lithe thrill-ride through the less-glimpsed streets of Tokyo.