{"product_id":"mornings-without-mii-paperback","title":"Mornings Without MII - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMayumi Inaba\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGinny Tapley Takemori\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINDIE BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Sasakawa Foundation Translation Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year So Far\u003cbr\u003eA Must-Read: \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Millions \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookBub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A great love story.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Sigrid Nunez, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I have never read a book quite like this. Profoundly real, specific, moving, and beautifully written.\" ―Elif Batuman, author of\u003ci\u003e Either\/Or\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMornings Without Mii \u003c\/i\u003eis a beloved Japanese modern classic: a deeply affecting story of solitude, independence, writing, grief, love, and life alongside a cat.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry carried by the breeze off Tokyo's Tamagawa River. She follows the sound to the riverbank and finds a newborn kitten only the size of her palm dangling from a fence, abandoned. Overcome by tender affection, she takes the cat back to the small apartment she shares with her husband and christens her Mii: so begins an ineffable bond. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the next twenty years, we follow Inaba, a poet and novelist by moonlight, as she pursues quiet, solitude, and a room of her own. Through it all, her cat, a fiercely independent creature in her own right, is her confidante and muse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the late Mayumi Inaba, a winner of the Kawabata Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, \u003ci\u003eMornings Without Mii \u003c\/i\u003eis not just a love letter to companionship: it's a poignant, searching meditation on the forces that enable us to connect, to create, and to build a life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMayumi Inaba \u003c\/b\u003e(1950-2014) was a prizewinning novelist and poet. Her works include \u003ci\u003eThe Sea Staghorn\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTo the Peninsula\u003c\/i\u003e, for which she won the Kawabata Yasunari Prize and the Tanizaki Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGinny Tapley Takemori \u003c\/b\u003ehas translated fiction by more than a dozen early-modern and contemporary Japanese writers. Her translation of Sayaka Murata's Akutagawa Prize-winning novel \u003ci\u003eConvenience Store Woman \u003c\/i\u003ewas one of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's best books of 2018, was Foyles Book of the Year 2018, and was short-listed for the Indies Choice Award and Best Translated Book Award.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 7.52 x 5.11 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 25, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47832565022973,"sku":"9780374614782","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/mtalv_Gt8y9780374614782.webp?v=1783832582","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/mornings-without-mii-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}