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A feelgood novel for fans of A Man Called Ove andThe Rosie Project about an eccentric languageloving bachelor and the cat that opens his eyes to lifes little pleasures

The Silver Linings Playbook author Matthew Quick
A delightfully absurd lifeaffirming celebration I literally stood up and cheered as I read the last page

When Samuel a lonely linguistics lecturer wakes up on New Years Day he is convinced that the year ahead will bring nothing more than passive verbs and unitalicized momentsuntil an unexpected visitor slips into his Barcelona apartment and refuses to leave The appearance of Mishima a stray brindlefurred cat becomes the catalyst that leads Samuel from the comforts of his favorite books foreign films and classical music to places hes never been next door and to people he might never have met a neighbor with whom hes never exchanged a word Even better the Catalan cat leads him back to the mysterious Gabriela whom he thought hed lost long before and shows him in this international bestsellerfor fans of The Rosie Project The Solitude of Prime NumbersandA Man Called Ove that sometimes love is hiding in the smallest characters