Japanese writer Haruki Murakami once again missed out on the Nobel Prize for Literature, which many book fans may have become accustomed to.

Of course, writing itself should not be aimed at winning awards. I believe that his works are already the most important spiritual salvation in the minds of many readers.

This year Haruki Murakami handed over a new work "Abandoned Cat: What I Want to Say About My Father". It is short in length. As the name suggests, Haruki Murakami writes about the memory of his father. As he remembers his father, What he wants to record is a period of history that cannot be forgotten.

The beginning of the work is written by Murakami Haruki and his father went to the beach to abandon a cat. At that time, their family lived in Suchuan. Haruki Murakami sat on the back seat of his father's bicycle, holding the cat's box in his arms, and went to the beach of Xianggu Garden, about two kilometers away from home, and put the cat down.

When the two returned home, they found the abandoned cat waiting quietly in the entrance hall, so they continued to adopt it.

It is only five pages With words, the story of the abandoned cat ends. What I'm talking about next is my father's habit of chanting sutras in front of the Buddhist altar at home every day. His father told him that it was "for the people who died in the previous war."

So Murakami Haruki began to trace his life back. My father's life was a life of economic depression, being involved in a world war, and surviving post-war difficulties.

Witnessing the execution of prisoners of war left an indelible memory in his father’s heart, but it also made Haruki Murakami, as his son, feel heavy. The weight of history has connected generations. "There is a history of a drop of rain, and there is an obligation to pass it on. We should not forget it."

From the small incident in childhood when my father abandoned a cat, to the reorganization of the major historical events my father experienced, no matter the individual or the era, they are all composed of many fragments. When put together and connected, sometimes things can be explained. Cause and effect, sometimes we don’t know why.

Many things in reality seem to happen by chance, but also seem to be inevitable fate.

By the way, this book had already had a great response in Taiwan before it was published. Of course, one of the reasons is Haruki Murakami’s fame, but another selling point is that this work invited a 23-year-old Taiwanese Up-and-coming cartoonist Go Yeon collaborates to draw the cover and inside page illustrations.

Haruki Murakami pointed out that her paintings "have an incredible feeling that makes me nostalgic" and left them all to her. This is quite encouraging to Gao Yan, a newcomer and fan. Great support from young people.