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The image was created with ink with a traditional Japanese brush for copying sutras on watercolor paper, then scanned into and digitally colored in Adobe Photoshop.

—Yuko Shimizu





Here ends Sosuke Natsukawa’s The Cat Who Saved Books.



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About the Author

SOSUKE NATSUKAWA is a doctor in Nagano, Japan. His first book, Kamisama no karute (“God’s medical records”), a novel drawn from his experiences working as a physician in a small hospital, won the Shogakukan Fiction Prize and received second place at the Japan Bookseller Awards. It sold over 1.5 million copies and was adapted into a hit film in Japan.

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