Copies of the new novel by Haruki Murakami has reached a million copies

Copies of the new novel by famous Japanese writer Haruki Murakami's "Colorless Tsukuru Tadzaki and the year of his last pilgrimage" reached a million copies, but only went on sale on April 12. This was reported by ITAR-TASS published by "Bungei Shunji," which has the rights to the product causing a stir. It has several times reprinted additional print runs, as the book is literally flying off the shelves of the country.

The protagonist of the new novel by Murakami - a lonely 38-year-old man named Tsukuru Tadzaki who tries to deal with its past and for embarking on this journey. "Pale" he was due to the fact that his last name not character for color. Meanwhile, the names of four of his childhood friends were such characters - the "red", "blue", "white" and "black." Throughout the novel, the hero finds out the reasons why he could not keep a relationship with their "colored" friends.

64-year-old Haruki Murakami - one of the world's most popular contemporary writers, his works were translated into more than 40 languages. Russian reader, known for his novels "The Hunt for the sheep," "Norwegian Wood," "Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," "Kafka on the Shore" and "1Q84" /translation in Russian Dmitry Kovalenin - "One thousand eighty four nevestsot" /.