The new novel by Haruki Murakami, a sensation in Japan,
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Japan began selling a new novel popular writer Haruki Murakami.
Hundreds of fans of the author spent the last hours in queues at the doors of the bookstores. At the launch of a number of large sales shops arranged special events with famous Japanese writers and critics.
The first edition of the new book Murakami "Colorless Tsukuru Tasaki, and the year of his last pilgrimage" (Shikisai wo Motanai Tasaki Tsukuru, to Kare no Junrei no Toshi) is a half-million copies. Nevertheless, the publishing house "Bungey Shunji" do not exclude that due to high demand very soon they will have to print additional copies. "Murakami fever swept the country," - Described the situation of the Japanese news agency Jiji. Only in the local unit of the popular online store Amazon number of pre-orders for the book more than 20 thousand Never before has a novel Murakami did not collect as many pre-orders.
The plot of the new book to the last moment kept in strict confidence. The writer said that he was very different from his latest novel "1Q84" (in the Russian edition - "Thousand nevestsot eighty-four"). In addition, Murakami said that was not originally planned to write a long book, but work on it gradually got him, and the result was great work. "This never happened to me, perhaps, since the" Norwegian Wood ", - Said the writer.
Some literary commentators in Japan claim that the main place in the new novel takes the image of Japan after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2011 that devastated the north-east of the country and caused the accident at the nuclear power plant "Fukushima-1". writer himself actively oppose nuclear power.
64 Haruki Murakami - one of the world's most popular contemporary writers , his works are translated into more than 40 languages. Russian readers are well-known for his novels "The Hunt for the sheep," "Norwegian Wood," "Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," "Kafka on the beach." On account of Murakami - a number of international literary prizes, including the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize. During recent years the writer is one of the main contenders for the Nobel Prize for literature.
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