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Abandoning a Cat

Haruki Murakami

A “beautifully illustrated” gift edition of the New Yorker piece on fathers, memory and cats, in which the author recalls his own father. A “poignant, self-reflective” meditation on what makes us who we are.

Harvill, £14.99, 20 October 2026, 9781787305724

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