num_pages: 202
description: Our narrators days are numbered. Estranged from his family living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company he was unprepared for the doctors diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear he can have one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week . . .Because how do you decide what makes life worth living? How do you separate out what you can do without from what you hold dear? In dealing with the Devil our narrator will take himself  and his beloved cat  to the brink. Genki Kawamura's If Cats Disappeared from the World is a story of loss and reconciliation of one mans journey to discover what really matters in modern life.This beautiful tale is translated from the Japanese by Eric Selland who also translated The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide. Fans of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles will also surely love If Cats Disappeared from the World.
language: English
title: If Cats Disappeared from the World
publisher: Picador