The days of our narrator are numbered. Estranged from his family and living alone with his cat Cabbage as company, he is unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can start working through his to-do list, the devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing disappear from the world, he can gain an extra day of life. Thus begins a very bizarre week. For how does one decide what makes life worth living? How does one separate what can be sacrificed from what is dear and precious? In dealing with the devil, our narrator will push himself – and his beloved cat – to the brink. When Cats Disappear from the World is a story about loss and reconciliation, about a man's journey to discover what truly matters in modern life. This beautiful tale has been translated from Japanese by Eric Selland, who also translated Takashi Hira's The Guest Cat.