The cat and the city
Nick Bradley (Author), Mariko Aruga (Illustrator)
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. In a series of spellbinding, interlocking narratives - with styles ranging from manga to footnotes - Nick Bradley has hewn a novel of interplay and estrangement; of survival and self-destruction; of the desire to belong and the need to escape. Formally inventive and slyly political, The Cat and The City is a lithe thrill-ride through the less-glimpsed streets of Tokyo
Urban fiction
1 online resource (243 pages)
9781786499905, 1786499908
1142506613
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Tattoo
Fallen Words
Street Fighter II (Turbo)
Sakura
Detective Ishikawa: Case Notes 1
Chinese Characters
Autumn Leaves
Copy Cat
Bakeneko
Detective Ishikawa: Case Notes 2
Omatsuri
Trophallaxis
Hikikomori, Futoko & Neko
Detective Ishikawa: Case Notes 3
Opening Ceremony
Acknowledgements