The release date for the English version of 'If Cats Disappeared from the World' by
Genki Kawamura is Sep 2018. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The days of our narrator are running out. He was shocked to hear the doctor's prognosis that he only had months to live since he was living alone, estranged from his family, and just had his cat Cabbage for companionship. But before he can start working on his bucket list, the Devil makes a unique offer: he may live an additional day in return for making one item in the world vanish. Thus starts a very peculiar week...
Considering that how can you determine what makes life worthwhile? How do you distinguish between what you really need and what you can live without? Our narrator will go to the limits in dealing with the Devil, both for himself and his beloved cat. If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura is a tale of grief and healing, following one man's quest to understand what matters most in contemporary life.
Eric Selland, who earlier translated Takashi Hiraide's The Guest Cat, has translated this lovely story from Japanese. If Cats Vanished from the World is a book that fans of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles will undoubtedly like.