Guest Cat Joe Vallese and freedom in our modern

and freedom in our modern world

owl griffin

Everything Ann Cleeves writes is incredible

father-child bonding

and fraught homecoming

Guest Cat Joe Vallese and freedom in our modernA bestseller in France and winner of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways of living. A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo; they work at home, freelance copy editing; they no longer have very much to say to one another. But one