by Joanne Harris · Doubleday · tapa dura · ISBN 9780857521194
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«A Cat, a Hat, and a Piece of String» is Joanne Harris's collection of short stories, published by Doubleday in hardcover (288 pages, in English).
A collection of sixteen stories that mixes the everyday with the unexpected: a house where it is always Christmas, a ghost who lives on Twitter, a baby made of sugar and spice, a girl crossing the Congo rapids, and Norse gods in Manhattan. Each story hides another, like Russian dolls, between wild fantasy and bittersweet reality.
Published in 2012, it is Joanne Harris's second collection of short stories after Jigs & Reels.
For readers of contemporary fiction and short stories who appreciate magical realism, inventiveness, and humor with a twisted edge.
Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris is a British author, best known for her 1999 novel Chocolat, which was adapted into a film of the same name. Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, of a French mother and a British father, she was a teacher of French for 15 years and had published three novels during this period before the surprise success of Chocolat enabled her to write full time. Since then she has written over 30 books in a number of genres, including fantasy, psychological thriller, novellas, short stories and non-fiction. Harris' books often feature themes of women's empowerment, folklore, motherhood, community, outsiders and outcasts, and food.
