The Cat Who Saved Books

Informationen zum Autor Sosuke Natsukawa is a Japanese physician and novelist. He graduated from the Shinshu University medical school and practises medicine at a hospital in the largely rural prefecture of Nagano. His multi-volume debut novel, Kamisama no Karute (God's Medical Records) , has won several prizes and has sold over three million copies in Japan. He is the author of the internationally bestselling The Cat Who Saved Books . The Cat Who Saved the Library is the second book in his series featuring Tiger the talking tabby cat. Louise Heal Kawai has been a Japanese-English literary translator since 2006. Her first publication was Shoko Tendo’s bestselling autobiography Yakuza Moon . She has gone on to translate a large number of crime fiction titles, including Seishi Yokomizo’s The Honjin Murders , and works by Soji Shimada and Seicho Matsumoto. Her literary translations include Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami, and Hideo Yokoyama’s Seventeen , which was a finalist in the 2018 Believer Book Awards, and longlisted for the 2019 Best Translated Book Award. She is also the translator of Sosuke Natsukawa's The Cat Who Saved Books . Louise comes from Manchester in the UK, and currently resides in Yokohama. Klappentext The international bestseller. A heart-warming tale about the power of books, for all who love reading them. Zusammenfassung The original Japanese international bestseller. A heart-warming tale about the power of books, for all who love reading them.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Sosuke Natsukawa
• Collaboration: Louise Heal Kawai (Traduction), Kawai Louise Heal (Traduction)
• Edition: Picador Uk
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 29.09.2022
• EAN: 9781529081480
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-8148-0
• Pages: 224
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Suspense; Japan, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Magical Realism, Library, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Animals, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / Cats & Dogs, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Cats as pets, Modern and contemporary fiction, FICTION / World Literature / Japan