For readers who have an interest in Japanese cultural fiction.
- Book: The Cat and The City
- Location: Tokyo
- Author: Nick Bradley
The Cat And The City is a collection of interlinking short-stories which are set in Tokyo in the run up to the 2020 Olympic games.
The stories, all very different, feature human characters who each have a brush with a mysterious street cat; it weaves its way into each of the tales. As you read on you discover there are small links between the separate stories, and I was nodding my head each time I picked up a common thread.
Author Nick Bradley has brought the reader real-life Tokyo through lost and often lonely characters, even though they may live in a city with 13 million other humans. Bradley portrays a mix of people reflecting both the old and the new of Toyko, with its cosmopolitan inhabitants.
I would recommend this to readers who have an interest in Japanese cultural fiction and perhaps to feline fans.