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‘Mornings With My Cat Mii’ joins other Japanese novels that confront the absurdities of modern life

I think back to when I was calling for a dead dog. It had only been four months since a close friend’s dog had passed away, and I winced right after I realised my mistake, spilling out a flurry of ...
The Bookseller

Harvill Secker wins nine-way auction for 'Japanese modern classic' Mornings With My Cat Mii

Harvill Secker has won a nine-way auction for Mornings With My Cat Mii, billed as “the perfect gift for cat lovers and a beloved Japanese modern classic”. The book chronicles the late poet Mayumi ...
La Vanguardia

Libro en inglés MORNINGS WITH MY CAT MII

Gentle meditative Cat lovers prepare to weep THE TIMES Book of the MonthIt was the end of summer 1977 I found a cat a little ball of fluff A teeny tiny baby kitten A beloved Japanese modern classic ...
Publishers Weekly

Mornings Without Mii

Mayumi Inaba, trans. from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori. FSG Originals, $17 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-374-61478-2 In this soulful account, Inaba (1950–2014) recounts her 20-year ...