The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

There is really nothing wrong with this book.

In fact, I find myself wanting to go out and get a cat now!īring your Kleenex, you are going to need it! And, if you are a pet person, I think you will find even more satisfaction from this than I did. I am not a big “fur baby” person myself, but I loved every single page of it.

While pets do play a key role in this story, I don’t think you need to be a pet lover to enjoy it. Each of them, whether they bring sadness or joy will fill your heart and satisfy your mind. You will be told stories of good things and bad things, friendships and jealousy, family and heartbreak. This book is an excellent experience! The characters and the story will grab you from page one and won’t let you go. I immediately had chills all through my body. It was adapted into a film titled World of Delight released on November 21, 2015.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. 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. 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.

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. Shio no Machi was also later published in hardback. 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. 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. 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.

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa