Mornings With My Cat Mii

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A beloved Japanese modern classic that chronicles the author's twenty-year bond with her cat, meditating on solitude, independence, companionship, the writing life, and how cats can change our lives. The perfect gift for cat lovers- a beloved Japanese modern classic that chronicles the author's twenty-year bond with her cat, meditating on solitude, independence, companionship, the writing life, and how cats can change our lives. For the last 20 years, Japanese readers have been falling in love with the late poet and prizewinning author Mayumi Inaba's story of life with her cat Mii, after she rescued her as a newborn kitten from a riverbank in Tokyo. The book follows their everyday joys through the seasons, as Mayumi develops her career as a writer, and finds her feet in life, with her small feline always at her side. Translated into English for the first time by world-renowned translator Ginny Tapley Takemori, Mornings With My Cat Mii is set to capture the hearts and imaginations of readers and booksellers everywhere. Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori

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Mayumi Inaba (1950-2014) was a multiple prize-winning writer and poet. She made her debut in 1973 with the short story The Pain of a Blue Shadow, and went on to write many novels and collections while working as an editor, including The Sea Staghorn and To the Peninsula, for which she won several awards, among them the Kawabata Yasunari Prize and the Tanizaki Jun'ichiro Prize. She was well known for her love of cats.