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G.F.
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ATH
2020-07-14
James Bennett
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5
BRA
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2023-10-30 00:00:00
2022-12-02
2020-06-30
BKS
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89585
000067254696
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20200714132147.0
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200605s2020 enka 000 1 eng d
9781786499882
1786499886
(OCoLC)1158593521
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eng
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823.92
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Bradley, Nick,
author.
The cat and the city /
Nick Bradley ; illustrations by Mariko Aruga.
London :
Atlantic Books,
2020.
291 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm.
Some illustrations in graphic novel format.
Tattoo -- Fallen Words -- Street Fighter II (Turbo) -- Sakura -- Detective Ishikawa: Case Notes 1 -- Chinese Characters -- Autumn Leaves -- Copy Cat -- Bakeneko -- Detective Ishikawa: Case Notes 2 -- Omatsuri -- Trophallaxis -- Hikikomori, Futoko & Neko -- Detective Ishikawa: Case Notes 3 -- Opening Ceremony -- Acknowledgements.
In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected ways. But the city is changing. As it does, it pushes her to the margins where she chances upon a series of apparent strangers - from a homeless man squatting in an abandoned hotel, to a shut-in hermit afraid to leave his house, to a convenience store worker searching for love. The cat orbits Tokyo's denizens, drawing them ever closer. In a series of spellbinding, interlocking narratives - with styles ranging from manga to footnotes - Nick Bradley has hewn a novel of interplay and estrangement; of survival and self-destruction; of the desire to belong and the need to escape. Formally inventive and slyly political, The Cat and The City is a lithe thrill-ride through the less-glimpsed streets of Tokyo.
Cities and towns
Fiction.
Cats
Fiction.
Cats.
fast
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Tokyo (Japan)
Social life and customs
Fiction.
Tokyo (Japan)
Fiction.
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Japan
Tokyo.
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Urban fiction.
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Fiction.
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Aruga, Mariko,
illustrator.
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