The Travelling Cat Chronicles

UK softcover edition in very good condition. Covers are clean and unmarked. Pages are free of creasing or marks throughout. A very good copy throughout. Doubleday paperback by Hiro Arikawa, first published in Japan in 2012 and in Great Britain in 2017, this edition reissued in 2019. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel, who also translates Haruki Murakami. Nana, a stray cat, narrates a road trip across Japan in a silver van with his owner Satoru, who is visiting old friends from his youth. Friendship, loss and memory shape the story, set against the changing seasons of the Japanese countryside.