Mornings with my cat Mii / Mayumi Inaba ; translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Inaba, Mayumi, 1950-2014, author.

Contributor:

Takemori, Ginny Tapley, translator.

Series:

Leopard (London, England)

The leopard

Standardized Title:

Mī no inai asa. English

ミーのいない朝. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Inaba, Mayumi, 1950-2014.

Inaba, Mayumi.

Women authors, Japanese--20th century--Biography.

Women authors, Japanese.

Authors, Japanese--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Japanese.

Cat owners--Japan--Biography.

Cat owners.

Human-animal relationships.

Japanese literature--Translations into English.

Japanese literature.

Genre:

Essays.

Anecdotes.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

180 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Harvill Secker, 2024.

Language Note:

Translated from the Japanese.

Summary:

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 cat Mii, after she rescued her as a newborn kitten from a riverbank in Tokyo. The book follows their everyday joys through the seasons, as Mayumi develops her career as a writer, and finds her feet in life, with her small feline always at her side.

Contents:

A kitten on the breeze

A premonition of parting

A fresh start

Into the twilight

Into the light.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Keyes Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781787304413

1787304418

OCLC:

1417063028