A couple in a rented Tokyo cottage are visited by a neighbor's cat. The cat comes and goes. The garden changes with seasons. Their marriage shifts imperceptibly. At 160 pages, this is prose so distilled it reads like poetry — a meditation on the things we can't hold onto.
Clean — contemplative fiction.
Skip if you dislike:
Moods: Zen Quiet Domestic Beautiful
Tropes: Cat Visitor Marriage Tokyo Garden Impermanence
Chibi — and they never own her. That's the point.
Almost plotless — it's about attention and impermanence.
More like Murakami's quiet moments stretched into a whole book.