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Two Cats Sitting at a Window: A Fable

by Nguyễn Nhật Anh

An unlikely friendship in fable form

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AlbakiReads Editorial

An unlikely friendship in fable form

Bear Cat, who has no wish to hunt mice, befriends Tom Thumb, a mouse who likes to draw. Their connection crosses the divide between creatures usually cast as enemies, while Bear Cat also longs for Floral Top, a missing calico cat. The book is Nguyễn Nhật Ánh’s first fable, presented here in English translation, with black-and-white illustrations by Đỗ Hoàng Tường. Its animal characters and fable form bring friendship and absence into the same compact premise.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in literary fiction.
  • Readers who enjoy animal fables and stories about friendship across differences.
  • Those interested in English translations of Vietnamese fiction.

Themes

Unlikely friendshipDifference and expectationLonging and absence

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Book overview

This is the English translation of Two Cats Sitting at a Window by acclaimed best-selling Vietnamese middle school and young adult/teen author Nguyen Nhat Anh. This is the prolific author's first fable. The key characters are Bear Cat, a white cat, and Tom Thumb, a Mouse that likes to draw. Bear Cat longs for Floral Top, a calico cat who is missing. What develops in this charming book is the unlikely friendship between Bear Cat, who has no interest in chasing mice like other cats, and Tom Thumb, two creatures who are supposed to be enemies. This fable, illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Do Hoang Turong, is appealing to all ages.

Praise:
"In Two Cats Sitting at a Window, Nguyen Nhat Anh tells stories about cats as vividly as stories about humans, and stories about humans as enchantingly as stories about cats, carrying the reader along page after page, only to leave them wistful and regretful when the book is closed."
-Pham Xuan Nguyen, literary critic

About the Author
Nguyen Nhat Anh is the author of numerous novels selling hundreds of thousands of copies in Vietnamese. Other titles by this popular author include the I See Yellow Flowers in the Green Grass, set in rural Vietnam in the 1980s, also published in English by Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc.); Give Me a Ticket to Childhood; I am Beto; and the Kaleidoscope series. Nguyen Nhat Anh lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City,
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