![]() ![]() ![]() The book is already on the top 20 list of online booksellers – hence the plans for midnight openings in the UK and across the US from New York to Seattle.” “In France, publishers printed 70,000 copies in August but had to reprint within a week. ![]() A million copies went in the first month. “When Haruki Murakami’s new book, 1Q84, was released in Japanese two years ago, most of the print-run sold out in just one day – the country’s largest bookshop, Kinokuniya, sold more than one per minute. This is not Harry Potter, it’s a 1,600-page translation from Japanese. “At midnight in London, and the same time next week in America, bookshops will open their doors to sell Haruki Murakami’s latest novel to eager fans. The new Charles Dickens! An ambitious work? A master of the novel? Have any of these critics read another novel? The long answer is needed though, because everyone loves it (at least everyone is buying it) and yet everyone is wrong: everyone needs to be disabused of their delusions: what everyone likes is not something worthy of liking. ![]()
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