Guest Cat Jennifer E. Archer Lonely Planet's local travel experts

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Guest Cat Jennifer E. Archer Lonely Planet's local travel expertsA bestseller in France and winner of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways of living. A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo; they work at home, freelance copy editing; they no longer have very much to say to one another. But one