CHINESE WHISKERS: The Adventures of Soyabean and Tofu in Beijing

A gentle happiness abounds in this simple tale | set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing China.' - Kirkus ReviewSoyabean is a kitten when he is adopted by Mr and Mrs A | foreigners who live in a large courtyard house in Beijing. Soon after | the couple bring home Tofu | a rescued dustbin cat. Just as the cats begin to settle into their new pampered lives | Soyabean is offered a job as a model for a new brand of cat food. Meanwhile | a mysterious virus is sickening people across the city and it is cats that are being blamed.Chinese Whiskers is a modern fable set in the ever-changing landscape of early twenty-first-century China. Told from a feline point of view and richly textured with the sights and sounds of the hutong neighbourhoods of Beijing | Pallavi Aiyar's first novel will make you laugh and tear up | and think again about the battles that we all fight between the corruption of fast living and the ideals of traditional life.