"A beloved Japanese modern classic that chronicles the author's twenty-year bond with her cat, meditating on solitude, independence, and the writing life"--
A Tokyo poets discovery of an abandoned kitten sparks a profound twenty-year bond, guiding her through lifes compromises, creative pursuits, and the quest for solitude in this reflective narrative exploring connection, creation and the quiet resilience of companionship. Original.
A beloved Japanese modern classic: a meditation on solitude, independence, writing, and life alongside a cat.
On a cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry carried by the breeze off Tokyos Tamagawa River. She follows the sound to the riverbank and finds a newborn kitten only the size of her palm 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 ineffable 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, her cat, a fiercely independent creature in her own right, is her confidante and muse.
From the late Mayumi Inaba, a winner of the Kawabata Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, Mornings Without Mii is not just a love letter to companionship: its a poignant, searching meditation on the forces that enable us to connect, to create, and to build a life.
