{"product_id":"abandoning-a-cat-by-haruki-murakami","title":"Abandoning A Cat by Haruki Murakami","description":"\u003cb\u003eA beautifully illustrated edition of the internationally bestselling author's meditation on memory and family.\u003c\/b\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\nIn 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.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nThis 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.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eHaruki Murakami\u003c\/b\u003e was twenty-nine in 1978 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, \u003ci\u003eHear the Wind Sing\u003c\/i\u003e, won a new writers' award and was published the following year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haruki Murakami","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57230480015625,"sku":"9781787305724","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0939\/6181\/4281\/files\/9781787305724.jpg?v=1785493005","url":"https:\/\/bookstation.ie\/products\/abandoning-a-cat-by-haruki-murakami","provider":"Bookstation","version":"1.0","type":"link"}