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Abandoning a Cat: A Personal Story
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With a cat serving as a quiet thread through the narrative, Haruki Murakami, known for his magical realist novels, returns with a beautifully rendered meditation on his relationship with his father and Japan during and after WWII.
A moving reflection on the author's father-plus a cat!-this is a beautiful short work of family history from one of our most beloved, iconic writers.
Originally published in the New Yorker in 2019, and now presented in a full, unabridged form, Abandoning a Cat is a poignant, self-reflective work by Haruki Murakami.
Here he writes about his father, the son of a priest who might have become a priest himself had a clerical error not sent him into the second world war. Murakami's father wrote acc...
Originally published in the New Yorker in 2019, and now presented in a full, unabridged form, Abandoning a Cat is a poignant, self-reflective work by Haruki Murakami.
Here he writes about his father, the son of a priest who might have become a priest himself had a clerical error not sent him into the second world war. Murakami's father wrote acc...
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