peteg's blog - noise - books - 2018 07 28 Hiraide TheGuestCat

Takashi Hiraide: The Guest Cat.

Sat, Jul 28, 2018./noise/books | Link

Kindle. Another Japanese cat story. This one is mercifully short. The cat herself is mostly a fashion accessory to a couple who decide to quit their publishing industry jobs in the late 1980s for lifestyle reasons. The observations about the boom of the property market in Japan around then are like Sydney now: the prices, the decrepit rentals, stagnancy, the coming crash.

Nicholas Lezard.