The preeminent work by one of France&#8217;s most celebrated young comics artists, <i>The Rabbi&#8217;s Cat</i> tells the wholly unique story of a rabbi, his daughter, and their talking cat&#8211;a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness. <br>In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and gains the ability to speak. To his master&#8217;s consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies (the first being that he didn&#8217;t eat the parrot). The rabbi vows to educate him in the ways of the Torah, while the cat insists on studying the kabbalah and having a Bar Mitzvah. They consult the rabbi&#8217;s rabbi, who maintains that a cat can&#8217;t be Jewish&#8211;but the cat, as always, knows better. <br>Zlabya falls in love with a dashing young rabbi from Paris, and soon master and cat, having overcome their shared self-pity and jealousy, are accompanying the newlyweds to France to meet Zlabya&#8217;s cosmopolitan in-laws. Full of drama and adventure, their trip invites countless opportunities for the rabbi and his cat to grapple with all the important&#8211;and trivial&#8211;details of life.<br>Rich with the colors, textures, and flavors of Algeria&#8217;s Jewish community, <i>The Rabbi&#8217;s Cat</i> brings a lost world vibrantly to life&#8211;a time and place where Jews and Arabs coexisted&#8211;and peoples it with endearing and thoroughly human characters, and one truly unforgettable cat.