Abandoning a Cat

Murakami's autobiographical essay about his father, published in The New Yorker. Salih recounts the story of the family abandoning a cat at the beach only to find it home before them, and offers it as the real source of the cats in Murakami's fiction.

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  the forbidden wonderland of murakamiEp 10 · with Salih Yayar

  Listen at 1:11:07Read it in the transcript

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Written by

• Haruki Murakami

Related

• The New Yorker

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• Abandoning the cat at the beachSalih Yayar · Ep 10 · 1:11:07

  Salih relates Murakami's memoir of his father: the family left their cat at the beach, drove home, and found the cat already waiting there, inexplicably. Salih takes this as Murakami's real…

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