Tuesday, January 23, 2018

German Translation of Killing Commendatore out Today!

The German translation of the first volume of Killing Commendatore, Murakami's latest novel, came out today from Dumont. It is titled Die Ermordung des Commendatore and was translated by the excellent Ursula Gräfe. Lucky German readers!

The cover is beautiful; readers who are Facebook users can see what is hidden under the dust jacket here: https://www.facebook.com/dumont.verlag/videos/1598203360226905/


                                

Sunday, January 7, 2018

English Translation of Killing Commendatore to Come Out on September 18th

Mette Holm, the Danish translator of Murakami, who always manages to stay on top of the all the Murakami news, let me know yesterday that the publication date of the English translation of Killing Commendatore was announced on amazon.co.uk. The novel will be translated by Ted Goossen and Philip Gabriel and will be published in the UK by Harvill Secker. Presumably the American version by Knopf will appear on the same day. The book can already be preordered, but no cover image is available yet.

Here is a the screenshot from Amazon.co.uk. The book's appearance in September was also announced on Financial Times Book Preview 2018.


While the website does not specify this, one is led to assume that, as in the past, the original multi-volume work will appear in one volume in English.