Books like The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Satoru and Nana, the streetwise stray he took in, set off in a silver van across Japan to visit the old friends who might give Nana a home, for reasons Satoru keeps to himself.
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Sweet Bean Paste
Sentaro, an ex-convict working off a debt at a Tokyo dorayaki stall, reluctantly hires Tokue, a woman in her seventies with misshapen hands, and her homemade bean paste starts drawing customers to his counter.
We'll Prescribe You a Cat
In a Kyoto building that isn't on any map, the Nakagyo Kokoro Clinic for the Soul sees only the patients who manage to find it, and its doctor sends each of them home with a prescription: a cat.
Goodbye Tsugumi
Maria spends one last summer in the seaside town where she grew up, at the family inn that is about to close, with her beautiful, sickly cousin Tsugumi, whose tongue is as cruel as her health is fragile.
The Guest Cat
A couple in their thirties, both writers, rent a cottage in the grounds of an old Tokyo house, and a neighbour's cat named Chibi begins visiting, and then staying.
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
When her boyfriend tells her he is marrying someone else, Takako quits her job and moves into the dusty room above her uncle Satoru's secondhand bookshop in Tokyo's Jimbocho book district, a place she has never cared about.
The Cat Who Saved Books
Grieving the grandfather who raised him, reclusive high-schooler Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the family's secondhand bookshop when a talking tabby cat appears and asks for his help rescuing books from the people who imprison them.
Kitchen
A young Tokyo woman who has lost everyone is taken in by a boy and his trans mother, and cooks her way through the shape grief takes when it has nowhere to sit but a kitchen.
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
Five Tokyo residents stuck at turning points in their work and lives find their way, one by one, to a community-centre library, where the librarian, Sayuri Komachi, hands each of them an unexpected book and a small felted gift.
The Housekeeper and the Professor
A young housekeeper goes to work for a former mathematics professor whose memory, since an accident, lasts only eighty minutes; each morning she and her ten-year-old son are strangers to him again, and he greets them with numbers.
Strange Weather in Tokyo
A woman develops a tender relationship with her former high school teacher over sake and seasonal food.
I Am a Cat
A nameless cat belonging to a Tokyo schoolteacher observes his owner and his owner's Meiji-era circle of scholars, businessmen and gossips with the cool contempt of his species.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
In a cramped basement café in Tokyo, one particular seat lets a customer travel back in time, as long as they keep to the rules and return before their coffee goes cold; four visitors take the chance to see someone again.