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Fans storm Japanese bookshops as new Murakami goes on sale

Fans storm Japanese bookshops as new Murakami goes on sale
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By Robert Hackwill
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Japanese author Haruki Murakami has his fans abuzz with the publication of his first proper novel in four years.

One of the world’s best-selling authors, Japan’s Haruki Murakami, has published his
long-awaited new long novel. Entitled “Killing Commendatore”, it is his 14th big book, and the first since 2013’s “Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage”.

The multi-volume work has already had 650,000 copies printed of the first two books in the saga.

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