The Goodbye Cat - Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel (Translator)
Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel (Translator)
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: George Blagden
Tags: General Fiction, Short Story, Adults, Contemporary
In the much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling and beloved The Travelling Cat Chronicles, seven cats weave their way through their owners lives, climbing, comforting, nestling, and sometimes just tripping everyone up in this uplifting collection of tales by international bestselling author Hiro Arikawa., Against the backdrop of changing seasons in Japan, we meet Spin, a kitten rescued from the recycling bin, whose playful nature and simple needs teach an anxious father how to parent his own human baby; a colony of wild cats on a popular holiday island show a young boy not to stand in natures way; a family is perplexed by their cats undying devotion to their charismatic but uncaring father; a woman curses how her cat will not stop visiting her at night; and an elderly cat hatches a plan to pass into the next world as a spirit so that he and his owner may be in each others lives forever., Bursting with love and warmth, The Goodbye Cat exquisitely explores the cycle of life, from bi
