Mr Kato Plays Family

“What an extraordinary novel this is! Who wouldn’t want to read about someone invited to slip into other personas? But there is so much more here. The book is utterly original, beguiling, and truthful in the deepest sense of the word. By turns playful, humorous and poignant, this book invites underlining so that a reader may return again and again to certain lines or scenes. I absolutely loved it.”
–Elizabeth Berg, New York Times bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv

“In an atomized society where we feel increasingly distant and isolated from one another, a chance encounter helps a lost retiree keep from retreating. Mr. Kato Plays Family is an elegant ode to the fragile connections that heal us and help us forgive those we love the most.”
–Marjan Kamali, National bestselling author of The Stationary Shop

“A fascinating intrigue and a warmhearted book about life, and what you can do to improve it.”
–Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg, international bestselling author of The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules

“Flasar, an acclaimed author of German and Japanese descent, presents the tender story of a man who must reinvent himself after retirement….Readers will float along with the bemused Mr Katō through the dreamlike prose.”
–Booklist

Milena Michiko Flasar was born in 1980, the daughter of a Japanese mother and an Austrian father. Her 2012 novel I Called Him Necktie was a bestseller in Austria, selling over 100,000 copies and winning both the Austrian Alpha Literature Prize and the Euregio Prize. In 2017, Flasar won the Niederösterreich Cultural Prize in Literature. She studied comparative literature at the University of Vienna, and currently is the literary fellow with the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts, and Culture.

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