This is a bummer considering the main point of the exercise was to choose what is essential to our lives. As the objects chosen by Aloha disappeared one by one, little of the effects of the disappearance to the world was shown. However, the intrigue wore off soon, leaving me liking nothing but the cute cover featuring a fluffy black cat and the spark of interest the premise/blurb gave me. The objects are selected in such a way that jogs the memory of our ill narrator, bringing him back to the past and makes him reevaluate the importance of those seemingly unimportant items. The book is divided into several chapters, one for each object that would vanish per day. The nameless protagonist and narrator seems to be thinking along the same line of thought until the devil, or Aloha as the narrator refers to him, declared that he would be the one to choose which items we say adios to forever. Surely, there are some things we could do without. I first thought it would be ridiculously easy there are billions of objects in the world. As you can see, I am running out of reasons to pass on this book.Īdd to that the interesting premise: a young man headed to his untimely death, the devil who gives him a chance to extend his life, and the pact between them: one object permanently disappears from the earth in exchange for another day to live. It was on sale and had a cat on the cover, so really, who am I to resist its call? I saw a friend on Instagram post about the big screen adaptation starring Takeru Satoh aka Himura Kenshin from Rurouni Kenshin. It was a few days before the COVID-19 lockdown was put up that I happened upon this book on Book Depository.
GoodreadsĪuthor: Genki Kawamura, Eric Selland (Translator) Fans of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles will also surely love If Cats Disappeared from the World. This beautiful tale is translated from the Japanese by Eric Selland, who also translated The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide. Genki Kawamura’s If Cats Disappeared from the World is a story of loss and reconciliation, of one man’s journey to discover what really matters in modern life. īecause how do you decide what makes life worth living? How do you separate out what you can do without from what you hold dear? In dealing with the Devil our narrator will take himself – and his beloved cat – to the brink. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life.
Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s diagnosis that he has only months to live.
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