![]() ![]() Unfortunately I found it hard to connect with the narrator, and I preferred The Travelling Cat Chronicles (reviewed here), which covers similar themes, though this is still worth reading. If Cats Disappeared From the World is a short, strange but poignant and thought-provoking story about love, grief, family, regrets, dying and cats. Every time the devil removes something from the world, the narrator is left considering the impact it had on his life and how much we take for granted everyday. Fans of The Guest Cat will also surely love If Cats Disappeared from the World. This beautiful tale is translated from the Japanese by Eric Selland, who also translated The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide. If Cats Disappeared from the World was his first novel and has sold over two million copies in Japan and has been translated into over. If Cats Disappeared from the World is a story of loss and reconciliation, of one man’s journey to discover what really matters in modern life. The average reader, reading at a speed of 300 WPM, would take 2 hours and 35 minutes to read If Cats. It seems like an easy trade but the story considers what life would be like without mobile phones, films and cats to name just a few things the devil makes disappear in order to extend the narrator’s life – though apparently even the devil draws the line at a world without chocolate. GENKI KAWAMURA is an internationally bestselling author. ![]() When the 30 year old narrator finds out he has a terminal illness and only days to live, he receives a visit from the devil who offers to trade one extra day of life for everything the narrator is willing to live without. ![]()
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