Mornings With My Cat Mii Mii No Inai Asa Mayumi Inaba Ginny Tapley Takemori Translation by Mayumi Inaba, Ginny Tapley Takemori (translation) 9781529922820, 1529922828 instant download after payment.

Originally published in 1999 as Mii No Inai Asa 

The perfect gift for cat lovers: a beloved Japanese modern classic that chronicles the author's twenty-year bond with her cat, meditating on solitude, independence, companionship, the writing life, & how cats can change our lives.

For the last 20 years, Japanese readers have been falling in love with the late poet & prizewinning author Mayumi Inaba's story of life with her cat Mii, after she rescued her as a newborn kitten from a riverbank in Tokyo.
The book follows their everyday joys through the seasons, as Mayumi develops her career as a writer, and finds her feet in life, with her small feline always at her side.

In her memoir, Inaba describes the day in 1977 when she found a tiny calico kitten stuck in the hole of a school fence on the banks of the Tama River in western Tokyo. She rescued the kitten & brought her home, & Mii became the author’s companion until she died in 1997.

Translated into English for the first time by world-renowned translator Ginny Tapley Takemori, Mornings With My Cat Mii is set to capture the hearts & imaginations of readers & booksellers everywhere.

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“I reached out my arms & the tiny kitten clung to me with surprising strength. She was freezing cold, a helpless little thing. I hugged her to my chest & a sweet animal scent filled my nostrils. Her body was infused with the smell of milk & summer. The smooth feel of soft baby fur filled the palm of my hand.” 

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Mayumi Inaba (稲葉 真弓 ° 1950–2014) was a multiple prize-winning writer & poet. She made her debut in 1973 with the short story The Pain of a Blue Shadow, (Aoi kage no itami wo, 青い影の痛みを) & went on to write many novels and collections while working as an editor, including The Sea Staghorn and To the Peninsula, for which she won several awards, among them the 2008 Kawabata Yasunari Prize & the 2011 Tanizaki Jun'ichiro Prize. She was well known for her love of cats.