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Rating: 3.75 stars out of 5 (Spoiler warning!) If Cats Disappeared From the World  is a 2012 novel written by Genki Kawamura, its English version translated by Eric Selland. The story depicts the last week of life of a 30-year-old man recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. Having been told that he has little time to live, this nameless narrator will try anything to extend his time on Earth—even consulting whom he believes to be the devil himself. “The real devil doesn’t hav

I had the privilege of attending R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis book tour in September. Rebecca F. Kuang  is an award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author known for books such as The Poppy War , Babel: An Arcane History,  and Yellowface . She has studied at Cambridge, which is the setting of  Katabasis , as well as Oxford, the setting of  Babel , and is currently pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages at Yale. Throughout the event, Kuang gave insights into her newest nove