The cat and the city
Bradley, Nick (Novelist)2020
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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.
Main title:
The cat and the city / Nick Bradley.
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Imprint:
London : Atlantic Books, 2020.London : Atlantic Books, 2020.
Collation:
291 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781786499882 (hbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2328050