All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal Paperback Book 9780241422199

One of the greatest European prose writers Philip RothIn the autumn of 1965 Bohumil Hrabal bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague There until his death he tended to an evergrowing unruly community of cats This is his confessional tender and shocking meditation on the joys and torments of his life with them how he became increasingly overwhelmed by the demands of the things he loved even to the brink of madnessDark and strange It begins with warmth and fluffiness but soon descends into Dostoevskian horror Daily TelegraphThe Czech master exposed the animal within us New Yorker