Haruki Murakami’s novel is soon hitting the stores on April 13. However, the English translation of the book is not yet available. Nevertheless, media reports assure that this text will be soul-stirring and will purely embrace Murakami’s sensational world.
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Murakami’s new novel stirs excitement
The publisher didn’t provide any significant details about the title or plot except for the length of the Japanese manuscript, which is about 1,200 pages long. The novel is still kept hidden and under wraps because of Murakami’s desire for readers to discover the novel’s scope and meaning on their own rather than having them revealed beforehand.
Shinchosa Publishing Co. said that the novel will be available to people both in print and digital format by April 13.
However, the publisher did give a sneak peek of the text by mentioning the story’s unawareness for a long time. To add curiosity to the sealed nature of the book, in a little promotional teaser, he said that “you must go to the city”. No matter what takes place, “A locked-up “story” starts to move quietly, as if “old dreams” are woken up and unraveled in a secluded archive.”
Fascinatingly, even the staff at the publisher is denied the right to pass on any information about the book. The story is also withheld because Murakami’s fans are excited to read the story themselves rather than being told.
It remains unknown whether the new novel that is about to be released is one of Murakami’s older stories. Though, as per the research, it resonates with the story that was previously published with the same title in a literary magazine. However, it never made it as a book.
More about Haruki Murakami
The recent novel soon to be released is Murakami’s first novel since Kishidancho Goroshi, or Killing Commendatore, which was produced in February 2017.
He is a constantly enlisted scholar for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Also, he successfully published his debut novel, Hear the Wind Sing, in the year 1979, while he was simultaneously managing a jazz bar in Tokyo.
His first bestseller, Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, turned him into a literary star at a young age. Famous for his magical realism, over the years he penned some of the most marvelous books, like A Wild Sheep Chase, 1Q84, and The Wind-up Bird.
Interestingly, a library at Waseda University, Tokyo, was recently inaugurated at his alma mater in 2021. It was not just entirely devoted to his works. But it also became a prominent space for his followers to exchange thoughts culturally as well as to carry out research.
What adds flavor and uniqueness to his writings is the vividness with which music gains expression and finds a new voice in them. This stems from his passion as a music collector, appreciating a variety of genres from classical to jazz to rock. He even hosted a show known as “Murakami Radio,” where his music and literary tastes were colorfully combined in his humorous commentary played alongside his favorite music.
The 74-year-old leaves behind him some of the path-breaking works sprinkled by a cult of pop culture translated into 50 different languages. What amuses his readers is the truly mystical Murakami world, where the literal world becomes magical and becomes an everlasting memory.
