Mornings Without MII [Audiobook]
(CD-Audio, Audiobook)
Publishing Details
Mornings Without MII [Audiobook]
By (Author) Mayumi Inaba
Blackstone Publishing
Blackstone Publishing
25th February 2025
Audiobook
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Cats as pets
Anthologies: general
Physical Properties
CD-Audio
Description
A beloved Japanese modern classic that chronicles the author's twenty-year bond with her cat, meditating on solitude, independence, and the writing life.
On a cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry carried by the breeze of Tokyo's Tamagawa River. She follows the sound to find a newborn kitten, just the size of her palm, dangling from a fence, abandoned. Overcome by tender affection, she takes the cat back to the small apartment she shares with her husband and christens her Mii, and so begins an ineffable bond.
Over the next twenty years, we follow Inaba, a poet and novelist by moonlight, through a lifetime of choices and compromises made in pursuit of quiet, solitude, and a space to create. Through it all, her cat, a formidably independent creature in her own right, is her confidante and muse.
From the late Mayumi Inaba, the winner of the Kawabata Yasunari Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, Mornings Without Mii is more than a love letter to feline companionship--it is a probing, stirring meditation on the forces that enable us to connect, to create, and to build a life.
Author Bio
Mayumi Inaba (1950-2014) was a prize-winning novelist and poet. Her works include The Sea Staghorn and To the Peninsula, for which she won the Kawabata Yasunari Prize and the Tanizaki Jun'ichir Prize. Ginny Tapley Takemori has translated fiction by more than a dozen early-modern and contemporary Japanese writers. Her translation of Sayaka Murata's Akutagawa Prize-winning novel Convenience Store Woman was one of the New Yorker's best books of 2018, was Foyles Book of the Year 2018, and was shortlisted for the Indies Choice Award and Best Translated Book Award. Nancy Wu has narrated audiobooks since 2004, winning three AudioFile Earphones Awards. A New York theater, television, and film actor, she has recorded in studios all over the world--from Italy to Switzerland to Thailand. Her credits include Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Hope & Faith, All My Children, Made for Each Other, and the Oscar-nominated film Frozen River.
