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Publisher: Washington Square Press

Author: Makoto Shinkai

ISBN: 9781982165758

Short Stories, Fiction

She and Her Cat by
Makoto Shinkai

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$ 650.00 mxn

She and Her Cat by

Makoto Shinkai

Reviews

"[A] whimsical and moving linked collection...the author's earnest depictions of the friendships between people and felines produces genuine wonder...sure to satisfy readers looking for a quick pick-me-up."

Publishers Weekly

Summary

Lying alone on the edge of the sidewalk in an abandoned cardboard box, a nameless narrator contemplates the indifferent world around him. With his mother long gone, his only company is the sound of the nearby train. Just as he fears that the end is near, a young woman peers down at him, this fateful encounter changing their lives forever.

So begins the first story in She and Her Cat , a collection of four interrelated, stream-of-conscious short stories in which four women and their feline companions explore the frailty of life, the pain of isolation, and the limits of communication.

“To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”

John Steinbeck

“I knew when I had looked for a long time that I had hardly begun to see.”

Nan Shepard

“What a mistake, above all, it had been to believe that I couldn’t live without him, when for a long time I had not been at all certain that I was alive with him.”

Elena Ferrante

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

George Orwell

“How short a time a person had to be alive, he thought. How long to be dead.”

Kate Grenville