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  • 2025

The curious kitten at the Chibineko kitchen

a novel

Yuta Takahashi

Cat Anderson, Yuta Takahashi, Yuta Takahashi

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"Welcome to the Chibineko kitchen, where a soul-nourishing meal in the company of the resident kitten will transport you back in time to reunite with departed loved ones--for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and The Midnight Library. In a remote seaside town outside of Tokyo, Kotoko makes her way along a seashell path, lured by whispers of an enigmatic restaurant whose kagezen, or traditional meals offered in remembrance of loved ones, promise a reunion with the departed. When a gust of wind lifts off her hat, she sees running after it a young man who looks like her recently deceased brother. But it's not her brother; it's Kai, the restaurant's young chef, who returns her hat and brings her to the tiny establishment, where he introduces her to Chibi, the resident kitten, and serves her steaming bowls of simmered fish, rice, and miso soup--the exact meal her brother used to cook for her. As she takes her first delicious bite, the gulls outside fall silent, the air grows hazy, and Kotoko begins a magical journey of last chances and new beginnings"--

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Title Statement The curious kitten at the Chibineko kitchen: a novel / Yuta Takahashi ; translated by Cat Anderson.
Author Takahashi, Yuta
Additional Contributors Anderson, Cat
Takahashi, Yuta
Takahashi, Yuta
Publication New York: Penguin Books,2025.©2024
Extent of Item 184 pages ;
ISBN 9780143138617 (trade paperback)
Other Number pr07763004
General Notes "This English translation first published in Great Britain as The Chibineko kitchen by John Murray (Publishers), part of Hodder & Stoughton Limited, a Hachette UK company, 2024"--Title page verso.
Translation of: Chibinekotei no omoidegohan : kuroneko to hatsukoi sandwich.
Summary "Welcome to the Chibineko kitchen, where a soul-nourishing meal in the company of the resident kitten will transport you back in time to reunite with departed loved ones--for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and The Midnight Library. In a remote seaside town outside of Tokyo, Kotoko makes her way along a seashell path, lured by whispers of an enigmatic restaurant whose kagezen, or traditional meals offered in remembrance of loved ones, promise a reunion with the departed. When a gust of wind lifts off her hat, she sees running after it a young man who looks like her recently deceased brother. But it's not her brother; it's Kai, the restaurant's young chef, who returns her hat and brings her to the tiny establishment, where he introduces her to Chibi, the resident kitten, and serves her steaming bowls of simmered fish, rice, and miso soup--the exact meal her brother used to cook for her. As she takes her first delicious bite, the gulls outside fall silent, the air grows hazy, and Kotoko begins a magical journey of last chances and new beginnings"--
Subjects & Genres
By Topic Brothers--Fiction--Death
Grief--Fiction
Restaurants--Fiction
Restaurateurs--Fiction
Siblings--Fiction
By Location Tokyo (Japan)--Fiction
By Genre Novels
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