Gauche plays the cello in the town orchestra, but even though he tries and tries he can't seem to get any better. In fact he is the worst in the entire orchestra. There is something missing in his music, but he doesn't know what it is. One evening a cat drops in to listen to him play and from then on all sorts of strange things start happening.
This kindle version also contains a bonus story by Nankichi Niimi - Gon the Fox
About the Author
Kenji Miyazawa is one of Japan’s best known and well-loved writers and poets. He was born in what is now Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, in 1896. Although the eldest son of a wealthy pawnbroker and landowner, Kenji was a deeply spiritual person who led a frugal life, and when he wasn’t writing, volunteered a great deal of his time teaching farmers how to improve their crop yields, or organizing concerts for classical music in his local village. He was a prolific writer who completed hundreds of works, but only a small collection of those were published while he was still alive, his reputation as one of Japan’s greatest storytellers only coming after his death (1933 - aged 37).
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