Hiro Arikawa: The Travelling Cat Chronicles, translated by Philip Gabriel.
Thu, Jul 05, 2018./noise/books | LinkKindle. A fun, mostly breezy life-affirming sorta thing in the Paul Coelho mode. The ethos is basically: enjoy the small fleeting experiences, be good to each other, don't moralise too much, get a cat. Some sections are told from the perspective of a very self-aware feline, quite satisfyingly. Sometimes repetitious but not irritatingly so. The ink drawings that open each chapter are excellent.
John Boyne. Lynne Truss. She's right that the translation is a bit uneven: it didn't settle into either English or American.