Abandoning a Cat
$29.75
- Hardcover
96 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2026
Summary
A beautifully illustrated edition of the internationally bestselling author’s meditation on memory and family.
In 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 les…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787305724 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787305724 |
| Author: | Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Harvill |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 204mm x 132mm x 10mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
His imagination is one of a kind * Washington Post *No other author mixes domestic, fantastic and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades * Financial Times *The world’s most popular cult novelist * Observer *
About The Author
Haruki Murakami
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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