The perfect gift for cat lovers: a beloved Japanese modern classic that chronicles the author's twenty-year bond with her cat, meditating on solitude, independence, companionship, the writing life, and how cats can change our lives.For the last 20 years, Japanese readers have been falling in love with the late poet and prizewinning author Mayumi Inaba's story of life with her[Bokinfo].
"The ten acclaimed stories in this collection are pervaded by an air of Japanese ghostliness. In beautifully crafted and deceptively light prose, Nakajima portrays men and women beset by cultural amnesia and unaware of how haunted they are - by fragmented memories of war and occupation, by fading traditions, by buildings lost to firestorms and bulldozers, by the spirits of their recent past."--Publisher's page.
In a dusty library, in the quietest corner of a house in a Tokyo suburb, live the Little People: Fern and Balbo, Robin and Iris. Just a few inches high, sleeping in cigarette boxes and crafting shoes from old book jackets, they need only one thing from their Humans, a nightly glass of milk, served in a sparkling Blue Glass goblet, by a trusted young member of the Human family. But when the Second World War comes to Japan, bringing a dangerous new kind of patriotism, both Humans and their beloved Little People face a world they could never before have imagined
Keiko se odmalička vymyká běžným společenským normám. Navzdory univerzitnímu studiu nachází své místo v životě jako brigádnice v minimarketu. Jeho dokonalá organizace se pro ni stává oázou řádu a bezpečí v nepředvídatelném a chaotickém světě. Poutavá sonda do života současné japonské společnosti ukazuje, s jakými problémy se potýkají svobodné ženy, které se nechtějí přizpůsobovat společenským konvencím a hledají své vlastní místo ve společnosti.