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.
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.
Any word on why Jay Rubin is not involved in this one?
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Penguin.co.uk listing it as a November release for the UK
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