the adventures of brandy & bach
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Description
Two cats — one strong, silent, grunty; the other savant, silky (you think tofu isit?), sassy. One cicak, who fancies (oi!) herself a scribe (je suis écrivain).
A void deck.
What could possibly go wrong?
Back cover blurb
This collection is a beautiful little thing, very delicate in its handling of tone, flirting with whimsy but never quite allowing it to tip over into anything twee — tempering its own sense of innocence and playfulness with a streak of sobriety — and the turning-over of philosophical ideas is done with uncommon charm. Uncommon, that is, in the sense that philosophy and charm don't usually (or naturally) pair up, and still less when there are cats in the mix. But the childlikeness of the set-up turns out to be a lovely, rather gentle inroads into substantive ideas and considerations — or (for the biped reader) defamiliarisations and re-considerations of habits, behaviours, and social artifices that are taken for granted as part of the daily grind. Certainly I am now newly conscious of the idiocy that must be on my face when I speak to my cat!
~ Daniel Davis Wood, author of Bone and Blood, At the Edge of the Solid World, Unspeakable, and In Ruins; founder and commissioning editor of Splice; and fiction editor at 3:AM Magazine
Responses
This is such a charming book you have written — witty, warm, clever. There is a lightness in these stories, your words moving on cat paws, that makes it a very elegant piece of writing. And like all fine tales and fables, these stories ultimately speak about the human condition with a loving sense for the oddity, magic, and humour of being. I sincerely hope these stories will soon be followed up by more delightful adventures.
~ Anders Kølle