Deborah Treisman

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The New Yorker: Fiction · Mohsin Hamid Reads Haruki Murakami · 1 Aug 2026 podcast

I mean, it seems we're all in on this fabrication because we don't get confused by each other's reality very much.

But I guess in both of these writers, there is an alternate reality that is confusing to us.

So we've published more than 30 stories by Haruki Murakami in The New Yorker, I think.

What is it about man-eating cats that most appealed to you?

And probably when you read Sputnik Sweetheart, you were surprised to find some little pieces of man-eating cats in it.

Mm-hmm.

When you first brought up this story, I couldn't remember if it had been an excerpt from the novel or its own thing.

So I asked Murakami and it turned out that the story was written in Japanese in 1991 and Sputnik Sweetheart was written in the late 90s.

But he said he didn't actually remember the details of his thinking, but he thought he might have written Sputnik Sweetheart with the intention of revisiting this story in some way.

So obviously it has many of the themes that continue to obsess him in it.

Well, we should talk more about that after we hear the story.

And now here's Mohsin Hamid reading Man-Eating Cats by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.

That was Mohsin Hamid reading Man-Eating Cats by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.

The story appeared in The New Yorker in December of 2000 and was included in Murakami's collection Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, which was published in English in 2006.

Happy baking.

So most in the story opens up with a lot of incongruity.

You know, we have this seemingly happy couple sipping coffee, overlooking the harbor, reading to each other, a kind of idyllic setting on a Greek island.

And yet, what do we get?

We get immediately starving cats eating their dead owner.

We get a statue of a Greek nationalist who was impaled naked through the anus to the mouth and died an excruciating death.

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