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A best seller in France and victor of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Prize, The Guest Kitty, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient aspect of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt means of living. A couple of in their 30s stay in a small rented cottage in a calm part of Tokyo; they home based, freelance copy-editing; they no more have quite definitely to say one to the other. But one day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. It leaves, however the next day comes again, and on the other hand and again. Soon they can be buying snacks for the cat and enjoying discusses the animal and everything its little ways. Life all of the sudden seems to have more promise for the couple - the days have significantly more light and color. The novel brims with new small joys and many occasions of staggering poetic beauty, but something happens. As Kenzaburo Oe has remarked, Takashi Hiraide's work "really shines". His poetry, which is remarkably cross-hatched with beauty, has been acclaimed here for "its apparently endless string of shape-shifting items and encounters, whose splintering impact is enacted via a unique combination of velocity and minutiae".
