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Nick Bradley
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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...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2023.
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Flo is sick of Tokyo. Her translation work has dried up and she's in a relationship that's run its course. Then she finds a mysterious book left by a fellow passenger on the Tokyo Subway and immediately feels compelled to translate this forgotten novel. It is a story about Ayako, a fierce and strict old woman who runs a coffee shop in the small town of Onomichi, where she has just taken guardianship of her grandson, Kyo. Haunted by long-buried family...
