I may have failed to mention this before, but the man who is true to his name, Michael Kindness, our Random House rep, delivered to a lucky few of us some manuscripts of Haruki Murakami’s latest book Kafka on the Shore, due out next April (cannot find any links to it yet–too soon, I guess). Jess has already read it and shares her thoughts, having devoured it in one weekend. I have not gotten around to reading it, but its next on my list. I am about to finish Cloud Atlas, which is completely amazing. Anyway, TEV pointed out this article from the Japan Times, which says that the German translation of Kafka on the Shore became the No. 1 bestseller in Austria.
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I was fortunate enough to interview Gary Fisketjon of Knopf recently and he’s always been a big Murakami fan, and was in fact, instrumental in getting his work published in the States. He believes this is Murakami’s best work and will garner him a huge following.
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