With Tokyo and a stray cat at its heart, Bradley’s debut is a tender and darkly comic story about belonging and loneliness. A mesmerising, finely observed journey into the intersecting lives, cultures and identities of a metropolis, The Cat and the City announces the arrival of a masterful new voice in fiction.
A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick
In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, 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.
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781786499882
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 520 g
Dimensions: 222 x 146 x 30 mm
Edition: Main
A novel story which seizes the very essence of human nature when we find ourselves in an ocean of people, alone and slowly drowning.
This is the unsparing cycle of a city’s highs and lows channelled through the green...
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This is such a charming, easy to read book. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s built up with lots of short stories that actually intertwine with each other. Some of the characters also appear in the other stories. The book... More
My thanks to Atlantic Books for an eARC via NetGalley of ‘The Cat and the City’ by Nick Bradley in exchange for an honest review.
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