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Abandoning a Cat A Personal Story | 31.88 MB

Title: Abandoning a Cat A Personal Story
Author: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
Category: Poetry, Cats, Biography & Memoir, Literary, Essays, Fatherhood
Language: English | 464 str. Pages | ISBN: 9781529977974


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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 accomplished haiku and eventually became a teacher. As Haruki grew older - as he became an adult and then a writer, he and his father found they had little in common. They were later estranged for twenty years, only reconciling on his father's deathbed.
This haunting personal essay is a reflection on what it means to be a father and what it means to be a son - on what it means to be loved and to be abandoned - and also on a particular moment of Japanese history,...