The perfect gift for cat lovers: a beloved Japanese modern classic that chronicles the author's twenty-year bond with her cat, meditating on solitude, independence, companionship, the writing life, and how cats can change our lives.
For the last 20 years, Japanese readers have been falling in love with the late poet and prizewinning author Mayumi Inaba's story of life with her cat Mii, after she rescued her as a newborn kitten from a riverbank in Tokyo.
The book follows 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.
Translated into English for the first time by world-renowned translator Ginny Tapley Takemori, Mornings With My Cat Mii is set to capture the hearts and imaginations of readers and booksellers everywhere.
Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
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Mayumi Inaba (Author)
Mayumi Inaba (1950-2014) was a Japanese writer, editor and poet. She made her debut in 1973 with the short story 'The Pain of Blue Shadows', and she went on to write many novels and collections for which she won several awards, including the Kawabata Yasunari Prize. She was awarded the Tanizaki Prize for To the Peninsula. Inaba was well known for her love of cats.
Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
Ginny Tapley Takemori is the award-winning translator of Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman and other contemporary Japanese literature. She lives in rural Japan with her husband and three cats.