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The Blanket Cats / Kiyoshi Shigematsu ; translated by Jesse Kirkwood.
Is three days with a cat enough to change your life? The troubled and anxious of Tokyo are desperate to find out. They all have their problems and they all want to believe that a temporary feline companion from a unique pet shop can help them find a solution. Or at least provide a few days relief and distraction. But, like all their kind, the Blanket Cats are mysterious creatures with their own unknowable agendas, who delight in confounding expectations. And perhaps what their hosts are looking forisn't what they really need. Three days may not be enough to change your life. But it can be enough to change how you see it.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593852699 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 263 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2024.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in Japanese as ブランケット・キャッツ by Asahi Shimbun Inc., Japan, 2008. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The cat who sneezed -- The cat in the passenger seat -- The cat with no tail -- The cat who knew how to pretend -- The cat no one liked -- The cat who went on a journey -- The cat dreams were made of. |
| Language Note: | Translated from the Japanese. |
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| Subject: | Blankets > Fiction. Cats > Fiction. Human-animal relationships > Fiction. Pet shops > Fiction. Tokyo (Japan) > Social conditions > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Novels. |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC Shige | 31681010408029 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
In a quirky Tokyo pet shop, seven struggling customers take home âblanket catsâ for three days, hoping these temporary companions will help them escape their realities, including a couple facing infertility and a woman on the run, but the cats challenge their expectations and perceptions of happiness. - Penguin Putnam
"Utterly charming . . . I would read a hundred of these stories." âShelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bright Creatures
Seven struggling customers are given the unique opportunity to take home a "blanket cat" . . . but only for three days, the time itâll take to change their lives.
A peculiar pet shop in Tokyo has been known to offer customers the unique opportunity to take home one of seven special cats, whose "magic" is never promised, but always received. But there are rules: these cats must be returned after three days. They must eat only the food supplied by the owner, and they must travel to their new homes with a distinctive blanket.Â
In The Blanket Cats, we meet seven customers, each of whom is hoping a temporary feline companion will help them escape a certain reality, including a couple struggling with infertility, a middle-aged woman on the run from the police, and two families in very different circumstances simply seeking joy.Â
But like all their kind, the "blanket cats" are mysterious creatures with unknowable agendas, who delight in confounding expectations. And perhaps what their hosts are looking for isn't really what they need. Three days may not be enough to change a life. But it might just change how you see it.
