Saturday, August 23, 2014

Ask a Question of Haruki Murakami and You May Get an Answer Tomorrow

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Readers who want to ask Haruki Murakami a question may post in on this page: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/20/haruki-murakami-a...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

NPR Reviews Tsukuru Tazaki

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"It is not every author who can draw fans to to the bookstores around the globe for midnight releases" is how the NPR story on...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Vintage Books Video on Designing and Producing the British Cover of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki

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Today Vintage Book posted a short video on YouTube about the design and production of the British cover with the now famous stickers.   ...
Monday, August 11, 2014

More Videos, Reviews and Articles Precede Tomorrow's Release

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A new video advertising Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki was posted today on YouTube by Knopf Doubleday. It calls the book a "phenomenal new no...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

Tsukuru Tazaki US Bookstore Release Parties Announced

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A number of bookstores around the US will host Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki midnight release parties on Monday, August 11.  It looks like they a...

Sticker Competition and Haruki Murakami Fan Ambassador Contest

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On August 6 a "sticker competition" was announced on Haruki Murakami's Facebook page. In June I posted about stickers that wil...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Haruki Murakami Will Be Signing Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki in London and Edinburgh

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Haruki Murakami will be signing copies of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki in Waterstones Picadilly in London on August 30 at 11am. The bookstore ...

An Excerpt from Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki published on Slate.com

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"Haida's Story," a long excerpt from Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki was published on Slate.com on July 27, so some impatient readers...
Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Reviews of the English Translation of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki Appearing One After Another

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With the release date of the English-language  Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki approaching fast, reviews started appearing one after another. ...
Sunday, August 3, 2014

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki Listed As Number 1 "Summer Read"

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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, which is to be released in 9 days in English, was listed on ShortList.com as the Number One Summer Read for this s...
Friday, June 20, 2014

"Marketing Madness" of Publishers?

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Lindesay Irvine posted yesterday on Books Blog of The Guardian   (link to the article here)  that the English edition of Colorless Tsukuru T...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Trailer for the English Translation of Tsukuru Tazaki Released on YouTube

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On June 9 Vintage Books released a trailer for the English language translation of Colorless Tazaki Tsukuru and His Years of Pilgrimage ,...
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Friday, May 30, 2014

Italian Translation and Italian Trailer

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The Italian translation of Tsukuru Tazaki, by Antonieta Pastore,   titled L'incolore Tazaki Tsukuru e i suoi anni di pellegrinaggio ...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

More on Dinner with Murakami

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A propos yesterday's post, this Facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/murakamipl reports that 612 people all over Poland had "di...
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Monday, May 19, 2014

"Dinner with Murakami" in Poland

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As part of a promotional campaign for the Polish translation of the two first novels by Haruki Murakami -- known by their English titles ...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Dutch Angle on Names in Tsukuru Tazaki

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James Westerhoven, the Dutch translator, offered his very interesting take on names in Tsukuru Tazaki.  The names appear in my translati...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Swedish translation out

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The Swedish translation is now out – some days early? – both in paper and e-book. It has been translated by Eiko and Yukiko Duke, who ha...

More on names...

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Just an explanation in response to Ika's very interesting post about how to translate names in Tsukuru Tazaki . It sounds like the Swedi...

The names, the names

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Already in the first chapters they are there, the names, the main character Tsukuru's friends: Akamatsu, Ōmi, Shirane an...