Name: Cat Country
Rating: 4.666666666666667 (3 reviews)
ISBN: 9780143208129

Lao She

Cat Country

When a traveller from China crash-lands on Mars, he finds himself in a country inhabited entirely by Cat People. Befriended by a local cat-man, he becomes acquainted with all aspects of cat-life: he learns to speak Felinese, masters cat-poetry, and appreciates the narcotic effects of the reverie leaf - their food staple. But curiosity turns to despair when he ventures further into the heart of the country and the culture, and realizes that he is witnessing the bleak decline of a civilization. Cat Country, Lao She's only work of science fiction, is both a dark, dystopian tale of one man's close encounter with the feline kind and a scathing indictment of a country gone awry.

I disliked how some commentary is so in your face at times, even the whole point of the book is vocalised at the last pages. Other than that i believe this was great commentary, i liked how it actually does highlight almost everything and it does it with nuance. Overall i think its a emphatatic book that's -even if it was written for a specific country and time period- a warning to everyone on what happens when humanity looses what makes us human. 

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