pbA witty, philosophical novel by the author of the internationally bestselling iIn Times of Fading LightibppSometimes a cat comes into your life when you least expect it.ppAn unnamed writer finds himself in Cabo de Gata, a sleepy, worn-down Andalusian fishing village. He's left behind his life in Berlin, which it turns out wasn't much--an ex-girlfriend, a neighborhood that had become too trendy for his taste. Surrounded by a desolate landscape that is scoured by surprisingly cold winds not at all what he expected of southern Spain, he faces his daily failures to connect with the innkeeper or any of the townsfolk, who all seem to be hiding something to learn Spanish to keep warm to write. At last he succeeds in making an unlikely connection with one of the village's many feral cats. Does the cat have a message for him And will their tenuous relationship be enough to turn his life aroundppWith sharp intelligence and wry humor, Eugen Ruge's iCabo de Gatai proposes the biggest questions a