The Cat and the City

The first book by Nick Bradley is a story about love for Japan, reminiscent of Haruki Murakami’s works. During the run-up to the Olympic Games, Tokyo seems full of bustle and focused only on that event. But beneath all this commotion, there are ordinary lives of ordinary people. We will get to know them through the eyes of an elegant cat roaming Tokyo’s backstreets. Their fates intertwine, like threads in the web of this lively city.

Nick Bradley’s novel is an удивительное journey through the labyrinth of Tokyo streets inhabited by bright and colorful characters. Each story, like scenes from traditional rakugo theater, is engaging and unique, and each storyteller speaks in their own style. And of course, don’t forget about the cat! Free and independent, it wanders through the city like a small kami deity, helping people find their life path, sometimes even making fateful decisions for them. This book is truly Japanese prose by a British author—you can’t stop reading it.