if the cats disappeared from the world book

His mother died a few years ago and he hasn’t spoken to his father since. The narrator lives a pretty solitary life. This is a story about life, love, family, and our longevity. And it hits on a very relatable topic: if you knew you were going to die, what would you do in exchange for a longer life? This book smacks you round the head with your own mortality and then keeps the hits coming. It’s just the right amount of weird and, because of the subject matter, deals with quite dark themes.

This is a cute and really charming novella. Especially when it starts to really affect the people he loves. As the week goes on, he finds it harder and harder to erase objects from the world. Every day, he can agree to get rid of one thing from the world and, in exchange, he will get an extra 24 hours to live. When he returns to his flat, he is visited by the Devil, informed that he will die the next day, and offered an interesting deal. Only hours after doctors give him the worst possible prognosis: he has an incurable brain tumour and has, at most, months to live. What would you give up for an extra day of life? That’s the scenario that our unnamed narrator comes face-to-face with in If Cats Disappeared From The World. Does it help that I’m on holiday this week? Certainly but let’s not take away from my achievements. I finished it in 3 days, which for me is kind of miraculous. And, if I hadn’t already passed my GoodReads challenge score, it would have been a perfect read. As soon as I’d done with Love, Nina I did it. Until a few weeks later when I couldn’t resist anymore and bought a cheap copy. But, considering my TBR list is so huge, I decided against it. I saw this book in a bookshop a month ago and immediately wanted to read it.

If the cats disappeared from the world book