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The Guest Cat is an exceptionally moving and beautiful novel about the nature of life and the way it feels to live it. Written by Japanese poet and novelist Takashi Hiraide, the book won Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, and was a bestseller in France and America.

In Oe's masterpiece of the human condition and family psychology, estranged brothers Mitsusaburo and Takashi have long since left their family home in a remote forested valley on Shikoku, in the south of Japan: Mitsusaburo for work in Tokyo; his younger brother Takashi for the United States, to atone for his part in anti-American student protests. Takashi's return to Japan coincides with a local Korean supermarket magnate's offer to buy the brothers' ancestral storehouse, pitting the brothers against one another and dredging up family histories best forgotten.

Premiul Nobel pentru Literatura 1994

"Multi spun, scrie cu modestie Mineko Iwasaki, ca am fost cea mai buna gheisa din generatia mea; am fost cu siguranta gheisa care s-a bucurat de cel mai mare succes." Instruita de la varsta de cinci ani pentru aceasta dificila profesie, Mineko a trait printre alte geiko ("femei ale artei") intr-o okia din faimosul karyukai Gion Kobu al Kyoto-ului si a practicat stravechile ritualuri nipone ale primirii de oaspeti.

Premiul Nobel pentru Literatura 1994