I Am a Cat

<b>I ladies and gentlemen am a cat. I still don't have a name.</b> <p/> Once a stray kitten the narrator of this story is now a noble and insightful observer of the bizarre and funny foibles of the human beings in his midst. Enter the upper middle-class world of Meiji-era Japan where a world-weary feline has ample opportunity to dissect the strange ways and convoluted conversations of human people. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective this is the whimsical adventure of a very special cat. <p/><b>'A biting satire of Meiji-era Japan told through the eyes of a sardonic street kitten' Jessie Burton <i>Guardian</i> <p/> 'A mordantly comic evocation of Soseki's deep pessimism about his own humanity and indeed about humankind in general' <i>Lit Hub</i></b> <p/><b>'A nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks told by a fellow who doesn't have a name and has never caught a mouse and isn't much good for anything except watching human beings in action' <i>New Yorker</i></b><b>TRANSLATED BY NICK BRADLEY</b>