Shelf Control is a feature where bloggers pick an unread book from our
shelves and talk about it a little. It's supposed to be a Wednesday
thing but I have French Movie Mercredi on Wednesdays already, so. Shelf
Control is hosted at BookshelfFantasies.com
Today's pick is A Cat At the End of the World, by Robert Perišić. It came out in 2022 from Sandorf Passage, a publisher based in Maine, and was translated from the Croatian by Vesna Maric.
The blurb says:
"Delivered like a fable, A Cat At the End of the World shifts perspectives between a runaway slave and the Scatterwind, a bodiless spirit that moves effortlessly through time and space, from the days of ancient Syracuse to our contemporary era. At the center of their stories is Miu, an Egyptian cat- one of the earliest to be domesticated- through whom Robert Perišić channels a deeply profound and beautiful understanding of animal and human behaviors as seen through the results of language, warfare, colonization, trade, and the building of a society."
How and when I got it:
I bought it last fall as a Christmas present for my husband. He's a big SFF reader and this sounded like something that was fantasy-adjacent enough to pique his interest.
Why I Want to Read It
He loved it, and it just sounds really neat, right? I think once you leave the confines of genre-driven American publishing you can find a lot of great literature that really defies genre with the potential to appeal to a wide audience of smart readers.
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