![]() ![]() Upon returning home from his doctor’s appointment, our narrator finds the devil sitting on his couch in the form of his doppelgänger dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and shorts. ![]() ![]() In If Cats Disappeared From The World, Kawamura tells the story of a postman in his thirties who discovers that his days are numbered because of a brain tumour which will cause his imminent death. More impressively, his debut novel If Cats Disappeared From The World published in 2012 has sold more than a million copies in Japan and been translated in several languages which makes it newly available in the UK and all over the world. At not even 40, this man of many talents has already demonstrated his genius by writing several novels, essays and producing internationally acclaimed films such as Your Name ( Kimi No Na Wa, Shinkai Makoto, 2016) or The Boy and the Beast ( Bakemono No Ko, Hosoda Mamoru, 2015). Kawamura Genki is not your typical contemporary Japanese writer: he is a phenomenon. ![]()
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