# Mornings With My Cat Mii

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- Authors: [Mayumi Inaba](https://www.bookquiver.com/mayumi-inaba)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Translated by: Ginny Tapley Takemori
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-15-2992-282-0
- Published: 2024-10-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A beloved Japanese modern classic about our special connection with cats and how they can change our lives over the course of a lifetime 'Cat lovers, prepare to weep' The Times 'A cat classic' Catherine Lacey 'Profoundly real... and beautifully written' Elif Batuman 'Aglow with incidental joys' Rivka Galchen *Winner of the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Translation Prize 2026* On a cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry. She follows the sound to the banks of Tokyo’s Tamagawa River and finds a newborn kitten dangling from a fence, abandoned. Overcome by tender affection, she takes the cat back to the small apartment she shares with her husband and christens her Mii: so begins an unshakeable bond. Over the next twenty years, we follow Inaba, a poet and novelist by moonlight, as she pursues quiet solitude and a room of her own. Through it all, Mii, a fiercely independent creature in her own right, is her confidante and muse. This beloved Japanese modern classic is not just a love letter to companionship: it’s a poignant, searching meditation on the forces that enable us to connect, to create and to build a life. ‘Reveals the profound respect, and compassion, that a friendship with an animal can inspire’ Sigrid Nunez, New Yorker Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori **Readers ADORE Mii** ‘A lovely little gem’ ‘Gentle and enchanting and had me in floods by the end’ ‘Absolutely beautiful' ‘Sweet and heartbreaking’ ‘Told with grace, beauty and love’