![]() ![]() ![]() This is an unusual little novel with an intriguing premise: how much of the world can you remove before life isn’t worth living? I quite enjoyed the story of an ordinary man, with an ordinary job, who is faced with the reality of his unremarkable life just before his untimely death. When the Devil proposes cats, the narrator is faced with making Cabbage, the cat he inherited from his mother and who has suddenly started speaking, disappear. The next item, television, also becomes problematic. ![]() However reminiscing about his ex-girlfriend and their relationship which was conducted primarily over the telephone, leads the narrator to reconnect with her one last time. For every additional day the narrator chooses to live, the Devil will remove an item from the world. ![]() Distraught, the narrator is offered a deal by the Devil, who appears as his doppelganger, as a way to prolong his life. “If Cats Disappeared from the World” by Genki Kawamura and translated by Eric Selland is a Japanese magic realism novel about an unnamed postman who is diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer. Thank you to my colleague Ingrid and her obliging cat Callie for these great photos ![]()
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