The Travelling Cat Chronicles and The Goodbye Cat
This handsome hardback edition brings together two of Hiro Arikawa's most beloved works in a single gift-worthy volume, now dressed up with a fresh cover illustration that gives it real shelf presence. It's the kind of book you'll want to press into someone's hands. The Travelling Cat Chronicles follows a man and his cat journeying across Japan's shifting seasons, visiting old friends along the way. Narrated with quiet wit and a rare tenderness, it asks gently searching questions about friendship, solitude, and what it truly means to belong to someone. The pacing mirrors the road itself: unhurried, observant, occasionally surprising. The Goodbye Cat takes a different shape. Seven cats, seven households, seven quietly devastating portraits of love and loss. It circles the inescapable rhythm of life and death without sentimentality, finding comfort instead in the steady, uncomplicated loyalty that cats offer their people. Both titles were sizeable bestsellers in Japan, and it's not hard to understand why. Kindness sits at the centre of each story, not as a grand gesture but as something ordinary and persistent. Readers have described the experience as 'uplifting and heart-wrenching in equal measure', with more than a few admitting to tears they hadn't anticipated. One reviewer put it simply: 'These cats truly come alive.' Funny, sad, and quietly profound, this double volume is a genuinely lovely read for anyone who has ever shared their life with a cat.
- Author: Hiro Arikawa
- Publisher: Doubleday
- Genre: Pet Care & Training
- ISBN: 978-1529959871
- Pages: 512 pages