Yes, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage just came out in English, but we're in for a Christmas-season treat as well, as Alexandra Alter reports in The New York Times that New 96-Page Murakami Work Coming in December, and Lindesay Irvine reports in The Guardian that UK readers can also look forward to it, as Haruki Murakami to publish new book in English in December.
Knopf will be publishing The Strange Library in the US, and Harvill Secker will in the UK; neither publisher appears to have a publicity page up yet, but you can already pre-order the book at Amazon.com.
(And you can see (parts of) the two covers in the aforementioned newspaper articles.)
Among the points of interest: the short volume is being translated by Ted Goossen -- not entirely new to translating Murakami, but the first stand-alone he's handled.
A new name to add to the Murakami regulars (Jay Rubin, Alfred Birnbaum, Philip Gabriel) ?
Apparently also:
Knopf is fleshing out The Strange Library with full-color art throughout in a lavish volume designed by Chip Kidd, Knopf's associate art director. Mr. Kidd said he drew on his own collection of vintage Japanese graphics as inspiration for the design.I'm always suspicious of 'lavish' and wish the focus were more on the words; kind of sad that Alter sees fit to make big mention of this -- and none at all of who translated the work ..... Read the rest of this post Add a Comment