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Yu Yoyo is an acclaimed poet and visual/audio artist from Sichuan, China. She started publishing poetry at the age of fourteen, and earned critical attention by the age of sixteen. Her work has featured in various literary journals and anthologies. She has published the poetry collections Seven Years (2012), Me as Bait (2018), wind can't (2019), and Cat is a Cloud (2021). She won the 2017 Henry Luce Translation Fellowship. Her poems have been translated into English, Korean, Russian, French, Japanese, and Swedish. A selection of her poems was translated and published by Poetry Translation Centre in her first English collection, My Tenantless Body (2019). Invisible Kitties is her first novel. She lives in Chengdu.
<p>'Utterly charming, particularly so for cat-lovers, who might argue that every bit of magic here is absolutely true' <strong>Starred <em>Booklist</em> review</strong></p>
'Cat was everywhere at once, splayed in all directions but too soft to get in our way…'
Discover this captivating, inventive debut, perfect for fans of The Guest Cat and If Cats Disappeared from the World.
Every cat contains multitudes
When a young couple accidentally come into possession of a playful kitten, their daily routine (and cramped apartment) is turned upside down. Soon they find their peaceful existence forever altered.
Charting the couple’s ever-evolving relationship with cats – some they live with, others who exist only in their imagination – Invisible Kitties is a meditation on the quiet moments of everyday life and a celebration of cats in all their many magical, chaotic, extraordinary forms.
'Cat was everywhere at once, splayed in all directions but too soft to get in our way…'
Discover this captivating, inventive debut, perfect for fans of The Guest Cat and If Cats Disappeared from the World.
Discover this magical debut, the perfect gift for cat-lovers
Discover this magical debut, the perfect gift for cat-lovers
- For fans of The Guest Cat (183k TCM), If Cats Disappeared From the World (265k TCM) and Before the Coffee Gets Cold (68k TCM).
- The debut novel from the acclaimed Chinese poet and winner of the 2017 Henry Luce Translation Fellowship, Yu Yoyo, whose poetry collections have been translated into English, Korean, Russian, French, Japanese and Swedish.
- Invisible Kitties will be a beautifully packaged paperback with flaps and hand-drawn illustrations from the author, perfect for gifting.
Competition: The Guest Cat;If Cats Disappeared from the World;Before the Coffee Gets Cold;She and Her Cat;The Cat Who Saved Books;The Goodbye Cat;The Cat and the City;The Travelling Cat Chronicles. Genki Kawamura;Toshkazu Kawaguchi;Makoto Shinkai;Naruki Nagakawa;Hiro Arikawa;Takashi Hiraide;Sosuke Natsukawa;
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Biographical note
Yu Yoyo is an acclaimed poet and visual/audio artist from Sichuan, China. She started publishing poetry at the age of fourteen, and earned critical attention by the age of sixteen. Her work has featured in various literary journals and anthologies. She has published the poetry collections Seven Years (2012), Me as Bait (2018), wind can't (2019), and Cat is a Cloud (2021). She won the 2017 Henry Luce Translation Fellowship. Her poems have been translated into English, Korean, Russian, French, Japanese, and Swedish. A selection of her poems was translated and published by Poetry Translation Centre in her first English collection, My Tenantless Body (2019). Invisible Kitties is her first novel. She lives in Chengdu.