num_pages: 224
description: An internationally bestselling romantic comedy for fans of The Rosie Project about a language-loving bachelor and the cat that opens his eyes to lifes little pleasuresWhen Samuel a lonely linguistics lecturer wakes up on New Years Day he is convinced that the year ahead will bring nothing more than passive verbs and un-italicized momentsuntil an unexpected visitor slips into his Barcelona apartment and refuses to leave. The appearance of Mishima a stray brindle-furred cat leads Samuel from the comforts of his favorite books foreign films and classical music to places hes never been (next door) and to people he might never have met (his neighbor Titus with whom hes never exchanged a word). Even better Mishima leads him back to the mysterious Gabriela whom he thought hed lost long before.In the spirit of The Solitude of Prime Numbers and The Guest Cat Love in Lowercase is a charming and uplifting novel about how one man thanks to a persistent cat-turned-catalyst awakens to the importance of the little things in lifeand discovers that sometimes love is hiding in the smallest characters.
language: English
title: Love in Lowercase
publisher: Penguin Books