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Abandoning a Cat

By Haruki Murakami
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A beautifully illustrated edition of international bestseller, Haruki Murakami's, meditation on memory and family. It's the accumulation of insignificant things that has made me the person I am. In this meditation on memory and what makes us who we are, Haruki recalls his relationship with his... Read More
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A beautifully illustrated edition of international bestseller, Haruki Murakami's, meditation on memory and family.

It's the accumulation of insignificant things that has made me the person I am.

In this meditation on memory and what makes us who we are, Haruki recalls his relationship with his father. When Haruki was six, his father took him on a bike ride to a nearby beach to abandon their cat. Haruki can no longer remember why his father wanted to do this, but when they arrived home to find the cat back before them, he recalls how his father respected this and let the cat stay. He goes on to consider how his father's upbringing and experience as a soldier may have caused the distance that grew between them for twenty years, and only ended with Haruki's visit to his father's deathbed.

All we can do is breathe the air of the period we live in, carry with us the special burdens of the time, and grow up within those confines.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781787305724

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 October 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Harvill

Contributors:

  • Translated by Philip Gabriel

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 204.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 96

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About the Author

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

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