Nesta multifacetada coletânea de contos, os leitores serão transportados para o Japão moderno e o tradicional, um mundo onde as relações, como as entre gatos e seus donos, são construídas com afeto, cumplicidade e compreensão. Da autora do best-seller internacional Relatos de um gato viajante. Hachi e Nana, dois gatos com caudas tortas, compartilham mais do que a característica fí ambos foram abandonados por pessoas cruéis que se livram dos filhotes como se fossem objetos descartáveis. Mas, por mais que a vida de um bichinho comece em dor e solidão, sua presença e amor incondicionais são capazes de provocar profundas transformações ao seu redor. Em sete contos que percorrem diferentes ciclos da vida—a dos humanos e a dos animais —, Hiro Arikawa narra as histórias de Hachi, Nana e de outros gatos e seus donos, explorando essas relações com uma sensibilidade única. Através das palavras da autora, miados se tornam uma linguagem compartilhada que permite uma imersão no cotidiano desses seres pequenos e mágicos, companheiros fiéis com o poder de emocionar os seus humanos. Nestas histórias do universo do best-seller Relatos de um gato viajante, os personagens são, juntos, protagonistas de narrativas que exploram o nascimento e a morte, e como, em ambas as situações, o amor pode surgir de formas inesperadas.
Author
Hiro Arikawa won the tenth annual Dengeki Novel Prize for new writers for Shio no Machi: Wish on My Precious in 2003, and the book was published the following year. It was praised for its love story between a heroine and hero divided by age and social status, and for its depiction of military structures. Although she is a light novelist, her books from her second work onwards have been published as hardbacks alongside more literary works with Arikawa receiving special treatment in this respect from her publisher, MediaWorks. Shio no Machi was also later published in hardback. Her 2006 light novel Toshokan Sensō (The Library War) was named as Hon no Zasshi's number one for entertainment for the first half of 2006, and came fifth in the Honya Taishō for that year, competing against ordinary novels. She often writes about the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) and her first three novels concerning its three branches are known as the Jieitai Sanbusaku (The SDF Trilogy); she also wrote about the fictional Library Forces in the Toshokan Sensō series. Raintree no Kuni, which first appeared as a book within a book in Toshokan Nairan was later published by Arikawa as a spin-off with another publisher. It was adapted into a film titled World of Delight released on November 21, 2015.[2][3]Her novel Shokubutsu Zukan (ja) will be adapted into a film titled Shokubutsu Zukan: Unmei no Koi, Hiroimashita and scheduled for release on June 4, 2016.
