De Kat die Bleef - Hardcover

For the readers of The Travelling Cat Chronicles. The cat is central to Hiro Arikawa's moving collection De Kat die Bleef, with seven stories. A cat is happiness on paws. This moving collection of seven stories focuses on this animal. In the title story, tabby cat Ko-ta hears about a legend: cats that live to be twenty years old become immortal nekomata. Ko-ta wants to stay with his owner Hiromi forever and he does everything in his power to become a nekomata and to be able to watch over him. In the other stories, kitten Spider makes sure his owner becomes a good father with his arrival, a boy discovers the truth behind the story that his father once rescued a cat there during a trip to Cat Island, and Satoru and his cat Nana visit a professor who once taught Satoru. De Kat die Bleef is about friendship and love, about the miraculous relationship between man and cat, and the comfort and warmth that both draw from that relationship.