if cats disappeared from the world genre

When I was little, I used to go to swimming. Then he explained my options-chemotherapy, anticancer drugs, palliative care. He also told me I had only six months to live, tops.

But after two weeks of this I caved and went-I just wasn’t getting better.Īnyway, that’s what the doctor told me. I was barely keeping it together with the help of some over-the-counter drugs (I hate going to the doctor). I had a slight fever which wouldn’t shift, and the right side of my head ached. I had this cold I just couldn’t shake, but I kept going to work every day anyway, delivering the mail. OK, look, I don’t know, but anyway I tried it and it was just embarrassing. But really, what even goes on a list like that? A load of rubbish probably. In a movie I saw once the heroine is about to die so makes a list of ten things she wants to do before she goes. I didn’t even have ten things I wanted to do before I die. Oh, and by the way-I’m going to die soon.īut I’d like you to bear with me till the end.īecause this will be my first and my last letter to you. What I’m about to tell you happened over the past seven days. OK, so you’re probably thinking this is all a bit silly, but please, believe me. Things would probably just go on, day after day. If cats disappeared from the world, how would the world change? And how would my life change?Īnd if I disappeared from the world? Well, I suppose nothing would change at all. SUNDAY: GOODBYE WORLD A SHORT INTRODUCTION SATURDAY: IF I DISAPPEARED FROM THE WORLD THURSDAY: IF CLOCKS DISAPPEARED FROM THE WORLDįRIDAY: IF CATS DISAPPEARED FROM THE WORLD WEDNESDAY: IF MOVIES DISAPPEARED FROM THE WORLD TUESDAY: IF PHONES DISAPPEARED FROM THE WORLD Fans of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles will also love If Cats Disappeared from the World.

This beautiful tale is translated from the Japanese by Eric Selland, who also translated The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide. 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. A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love.

If cats disappeared from the world genre