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. This book will definitely linger in my mind for quite some time and it’s given me a lot of inspiration! So, that’s great 🙂 I am really curious about more works by Genki Kawamura too.A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love, of one man’s journey to discover what really matters in modern life. Normally he never reacted to my moods, but when I was having a really bad time, he was at my side, just like now.” ~142 The story contained everything I am looking for in a good story humour, questioning the Human Condition, and some really smart twists. This is a story that will make you think about your own life and how much you’ve done and what makes life worth living. Its simplicity in execution, but also the struggle of the protagonist as he looks back at a life and what he has accomplished.
It’s written with very simple, plain language and I think that is also its biggest strength. I just couldn’t put this book down and was enthralled by it. Just like with love this finiteness gave it its shine.” ~ page 73 The end would inevitably come, we realised this, yet we lived. Yet, people fall in love, knowing full well that the end is inevitable. Of course the Devil wouldn’t be the Devil if the deal was crooked. The protagonist of this story has just been diagnosed with a brain tumor and only has at most a few days left to live, but then the Devil shows up and offers him a deal: Make something disappear from the Earth and you’ll get one more day to live.
It’s been on our shelves for half a year or so and when I was browsing through our home library I decided to finally give this book a read! When we came across this book, I was instantly drawn to it and we really wanted to have it. Later I started watching anime too and I’ve always loved the way the Japanese can tell a story. I grew up with SEGA and Nintendo consoles and often the videogame producers that I played games from where Japanese. Japanese (pop)culture and stories have always been a part of my life.
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