{"product_id":"abandoning-a-cat-haruki-murakami-9781787305724","title":"Abandoning a Cat","description":"\u003cp\u003eA beautifully illustrated edition of international bestseller, Haruki Murakami's, meditation on memory and family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA beautifully illustrated edition of the internationally bestselling author's meditation on memory and family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Even now, I can relive the shared puzzlement of that summer day when we rode together on his bike to the beach at Koroen to abandon a striped cat, a cat that totally got the better of us...'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this meditation on memory and what makes us who we are, Haruki Murakami recalls his relationship with his father - the son of a priest who might have become a priest himself had a clerical error not sent him to fight in the Second World War. Murakami's father wrote accomplished haiku and eventually became a teacher, but as Haruki grew older they found they had less and less in common. They went on to be estranged for twenty years, only reconciling on his father's deathbed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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 a meditation on a particular era of Japanese history, through the aftermath of the Second World War and on into the present. It is a beautiful short work of family history from one of the world's most beloved, iconic writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The world's most popular cult novelist' Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A master storyteller' Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haruki Murakami","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50255209169139,"sku":"9781787305724","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/blank__243.jpg?v=1786427759","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/abandoning-a-cat-haruki-murakami-9781787305724","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}