{"product_id":"134047","title":"Abandon a cat ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/WQtU4fntrsfoIHx0F8p4PT.png?v=1764949043\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Abandon a cat \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-color:;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003ctbody style=\"border:0px\"\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd align=\"center\" style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/93961269\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e A word from MD\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Haruki Murakami's Time Revealed for the First Time\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Haruki Murakami has brought out a story about his father that he has kept deep in his heart for a long time.\u003cbr\u003e It begins with a flashback of a time when he and his father abandoned a cat at the beach, and then goes back to his father's past when he was in the war.\u003cbr\u003e A single narrative that follows the trajectory of author Haruki Murakami and Haruki Murakami's literature, which has continued from his father's time.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cspan\u003eOctober 20, 2020.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eEssay PD Kim Tae-hee\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eHaruki Murakami's Time Revealed for the First Time\u003cbr\u003e A single narrative carefully built from the time of my father\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“We are but nameless drops of vast rain falling upon the vast earth.\u003cbr\u003e It is a unique, yet interchangeable drop.\u003cbr\u003e But each drop of rainwater has its own thoughts.\u003cbr\u003e Every drop of rain has a history, and as a drop, we have a responsibility to carry it on.\u003cbr\u003e We must not forget that.”_Haruki Murakami\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Haruki Murakami, an author who has maintained a certain distance from the typical Japanese literary style of personal novels, has opened up for the first time about his most personal theme: his father.\u003cbr\u003e As the title suggests, 『Abandoning a Cat: When Talking About My Father』 begins with a recollection of going to the beach with my father to abandon a cat. It is a non-fiction book that looks back on the personal history of my father, Chiaki Murakami, including his adoption and abandonment during his childhood, his participation in the Second Sino-Japanese War during his youth, his teaching career during his middle age, and his struggles with illness during his old age. \u003cbr\u003eThrough this, Haruki Murakami reflects on his own ontological foundation and faces his literary foundation as a writer.\u003cbr\u003e The author always preaches that no matter how much we want to forget history, we must remember and pass it on as it is.\u003cbr\u003e And he courageously tells the story of his father, a story that is not all that he is proud of, in the form of a non-fiction story.\u003cbr\u003e As a writer's responsibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kim Nan-ju, who was in charge of the translation, said, “I felt the author’s hesitation here and there.\u003cbr\u003e As he said about his work, “There were a lot of commas, and the conjunction ‘anyway’ appeared several times,” it is a piece filled with countless hesitations and cautions.\u003cbr\u003e Although it is a short book of just over 100 pages, the weight and lingering feeling of the story are neither light nor short.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Abandoning a Cat: When Talking About Father\" was first published in the June 2019 issue of [Bungei Shunju] and won the \"Bungei Shunju Readers' Award\" given to the best article chosen by readers that year. After revisions and additions, it was published as a book with illustrations, and topped various book charts, including Amazon Japan, Kinokuniya, and Oricon.\u003cbr\u003e The 13 illustrations, imbued with a strange sense of longing, are the work of Taiwanese emerging artist Gao Yan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Abandoning a cat 9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Author's Note 96\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eDetailed image\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/momo\/TopCate3190\/MidCate009\/318983185.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Detailed Image 1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e For a long time, I had been thinking that I should write a sentence about my late father someday, but time passed without me ever getting started. \u003cbr\u003eWriting about family is quite a burden (at least for me), and I have no idea where to start or how to write about it.\u003cbr\u003e That burden stayed in my heart for a long time, like a thorn in my throat.\u003cbr\u003e But then I remembered going to the beach with my father to abandon a cat when I was young, so I started writing about that story, and surprisingly, the sentences came out smoothly and naturally.\u003cbr\u003e One thing I wanted to write about in this piece is how profoundly and profoundly war can change the life and spirit of a human being—a very ordinary, nameless citizen.\u003cbr\u003e And as a result, here I am.\u003cbr\u003e If my father's fate had taken even the slightest different path, I, as a human being, would never have existed in the first place.\u003cbr\u003e That's what history is—a single, harsh reality born from countless hypotheses. \u003cbr\u003eHistory is not something of the past.\u003cbr\u003e History flows like living blood, warm and alive, from within the consciousness or the unconscious, and is passed on to the next generation.\u003cbr\u003e In that sense, what is written here is both a personal story and part of a larger story that constitutes the entire world we live in.\u003cbr\u003e It's a very small part, but it's definitely a piece.\u003cbr\u003e But for me, I didn't want to use those words as a 'message'.\u003cbr\u003e As a nameless story from a corner of history, I simply wanted to present it in as original a form as possible.\u003cbr\u003e And the few cats that were by my side in the past quietly supported the flow of the story from behind.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.96-98\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003e★Ranked #1 on Amazon Japan, Oricon, and Kinokuniya Bestseller lists immediately after release★\u003cbr\u003e ★The winner of the 2019 Munye Chunchu Readers' Award, selected by Munye Chunchu★\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThere are things that are forgotten over time.\u003cbr\u003e There's something that keeps coming to mind as time goes by\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chiaki Murakami, born in 1917 as the second of six children in a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, endured the barbaric days of war, and worked as a Japanese language teacher at a middle and high school in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, before passing away in 2008.\u003cbr\u003e When the author was in the lower grades of elementary school, his father, Chiaki, shared with the boy Haruki a horrific memory of the battlefield.\u003cbr\u003e Among them, the fragment of the brutal memory of killing Chinese prisoners of war remains a trauma to Haruki Murakami to this day.\u003cbr\u003e The incident developed into a fear that his father had participated in the infamous Battle of Nanjing, where a massacre occurred, but the author somehow was unable to confirm this directly with his father. \u003cbr\u003eMoreover, after graduating from college, he abandoned his father's expectations and embarked on a career as a full-time writer, and the relationship between father and son became strained. As a result, the writer was unable to resolve his doubts and eventually passed away from his father.\u003cbr\u003e Then, one day in his seventies, the author decided to write down the scenes of his father's life that were hanging like a thorn in his neck.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is how \"Abandoning a Cat: When Talking About Father\" started.\u003cbr\u003e While he received enthusiastic applause, including winning the 'Munye Chunchu Readers' Award', which is given to the best article of the year as chosen by readers, he also received criticism from some extreme right-wing historical revisionists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAs a writer and an individual in history, 'Haruki Murakami, born in 1949'\u003cbr\u003e A unique writing that follows its origins and trajectories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eReading \"Abandoning the Cat: When I Talk About My Father\" will deepen your understanding of \"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.\"\u003cbr\u003e You can see that the cruel scenes in the novel, such as the cat Wataya Noboru who appears at the beginning, disappears for nearly a year, and then returns, as well as the skinning of a living person, are derived from fragments of the author's life.\u003cbr\u003e The starting point of the work \"Slow Boat to China\" is the same as the round flashbacks of \"Hwa Hwa\" or the episode of the Battle of Nanjing in \"Killing Commendatore.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This work will resonate deeply with fans of Haruki Murakami, as well as with any Korean who directly or indirectly experienced the painful history of colonialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e[From the author's interview]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Q1- It was a shocking essay. Perhaps you felt compelled to write it when you turned 70.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Murakami: I thought it would be difficult if I didn't write it down now. \u003cbr\u003eTo be honest, I didn't really want to write about my family, but I wrote diligently because I felt I had to leave a legacy.\u003cbr\u003e As one of the writer's responsibilities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Q2- Is it because it is about the wars my father was called up to three times, especially the invasion of China by Japan?\u003cbr\u003e Murakami - That would have been pretty big.\u003cbr\u003e There are so many people who would like to pretend that something like that never happened, so it's important to write down what happened.\u003cbr\u003e Historical revisionism is rampant, and this is a serious problem.\u003cbr\u003e I couldn't write it while my father was alive, but I wrote it after he passed away (in 2008).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Q3- There is a passage that says that you were reluctant to look through the records because you thought that your father might have participated in the Battle of Nanjing where the massacre occurred.\u003cbr\u003e Eventually, you found out that your father did not participate in the Battle of Nanjing.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMurakami - I couldn't get my hands on it because of that kind of content, but now I've decided that I have to write it.\u003cbr\u003e After investigating, I found out that my father's unit had advanced all the way to the vicinity of Wuhan.\u003cbr\u003e (In the Corona News) I also thought of it when I saw the Wuhan (video).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Q4- China has been featured in various forms since your early works.\u003cbr\u003e Since it is a serious problem, it will continue to come up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Murakami- Yes.\u003cbr\u003e It definitely became a theme, a motif.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Q5- Were the stories you heard firsthand, such as the story of your father's unit executing a captured Chinese soldier, a big factor?\u003cbr\u003e Murakami - Since it was my childhood, I guess it was a shock, and I can't erase it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Q6- Many readers were surprised by the description of a father and son who had been 'isolated' for a long time in the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Murakami - That sentence was quite difficult to write.\u003cbr\u003e Because writing the truth about myself is a very tricky thing. \u003cbr\u003eIt took me some time to decide on my stance on how to write it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e _From an interview commemorating the publication┃Mainichi Shimbun (July 11, 2019)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e[Brief Translator's Note]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “You must want to forget the old days.\u003cbr\u003e “Potentially, that would be it.” - From Slow Boat to China\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It is not easy to hold on to old memories that you want to forget so that they do not fade into the back of your mind.\u003cbr\u003e That too, as a lifelong burden, with heavy shoulders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The author himself said that he once wanted to organize the 'heavy story about his father' into sentences, and when he started writing about going to abandon a cat with his father, it came out surprisingly smoothly. However, there is a hint of hesitation in the sentences that are interrupted by a comma in the introduction and then continue again.\u003cbr\u003e And also, the conjunction ‘anyway’ appears several times. \u003cbr\u003eThe impact of 'war' on a human being was also dealt with in a novel in 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle', but 'Abandoning a Cat: When Talking About My Father' deals with it in the personal realm of Haruki Murakami.\u003cbr\u003e And further, as a record of countless 'pieces' engraved in the harsh history of mankind.\u003cbr\u003e _ Kim Nan-ju (translator)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e GOODS SPECIFICS \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePublication date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 26, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover book binding method guide\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePage count, weight, size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 102 pages | 190g | 113*180*11mm\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9788934992097\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8934992093 \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e","brand":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43893918367786,"sku":"134047","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0683\/2750\/5962\/files\/1f3f5dbe715058c0052cda27d29b72a7.jpg?v=1765424312","url":"https:\/\/librairie.coreenne.fr\/en\/products\/134047","provider":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}