On a
cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry. She follows
the sound to the banks of Tokyo’s Tamagawa River and finds a newborn kitten
dangling from a fence, abandoned. Overcome by tender affection, she takes the
cat back to the small apartment she shares with her husband and christens her
Mii: so begins an unshakeable bond.
Over the next twenty years, we follow Inaba, a poet and novelist by
moonlight, as she pursues quiet solitude and a room of her own. Through it all,
Mii, a fiercely independent creature in her own right, is her confidante and
muse.
This beloved Japanese modern classic is not just a love letter to
companionship: it’s a poignant, searching meditation on the forces that
enable us to connect, to create and to build a life. |
