![]() ![]() The cat of the title is one of those with which many of us are familiar: the cat that actually belongs to someone else, but comes to our place for more food and to take a few extra naps. ![]() This is a gentle, thoughtful and subtly profound work, utterly without pretension or pyrotechnics, by a Japanese poet in his 60s, and – I am almost inclined to say “and yet” – The Guest Cat has been a runaway success in France and America it’s also been catching on in the UK, and its appearance in this column means that I wish it all the best, too.Ĭould its success be something to do with cats? The Japanese, after all, are not the only people who are very fond of felines. ![]()
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