{"product_id":"abandoning-a-cat-a-personal-story-hardcover","title":"Abandoning a Cat: A Personal Story (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER \u003ci\u003e- \u003c\/i\u003eA moving\nreflection on the author's father--plus a cat!--this is a beautiful short work\nof family history from one of our most beloved, iconic writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eOriginally published in the New Yorker in 2019, and now\npresented in a full, unabridged form, \u003ci\u003eAbandoning a Cat\u003c\/i\u003e is a poignant,\nself-reflective work by Haruki Murakami.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHere he writes about his father, the son of a priest who\nmight have become a priest himself had a clerical error not sent him into the\nsecond world war. Murakami's father wrote accomplished haiku and eventually\nbecame a teacher. As Haruki grew older -- as he became an adult and then a\nwriter, he and his father found they had little in common. They were later\nestranged for twenty years, only reconciling on his father's deathbed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis haunting personal essay is a reflection on what it\nmeans to be a father and what it means to be a son -- on what it means to be\nloved and to be abandoned -- and also on a particular moment of Japanese\nhistory, through the aftermath of the second world war on into the present.\nMurakami fans may find common themes from beloved novels such as \u003ci\u003eKafka on\nthe Shore\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e -- but will also be\nsurprised by the raw honesty of this beautiful autobiographical piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHARUKI MURAKAMI\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now\nlives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages,\nand one of the most recent of his many international honors is the Cino Del\nDuca World Prize, whose previous recipients include Jorge Luis Borges, Ismail\nKadare, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Joyce Carol Oates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46479490187471,"sku":"9798217208692","price":34.88,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_624ff253-9983-4676-8499-1ae8fe46685d.jpg?v=1794362518","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/abandoning-a-cat-a-personal-story-hardcover","provider":"Popular Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}