As one of Murakami's big fan, I knew about his latest *but not so latest book that just came out. I went to MPH yesterday to check it out because the last time Tsukuru Tazaki came out, I got the book right-away at the same MPH. There were no long lines awaiting for the book like in Japan, I guess here in Malaysia, we aren't that craaaazy over him :D Thank God for that.
We went to the "Latest" book shelves and there I saw two reversible versions of Pinball/Wind :
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I actually downloaded the e-books several months back and read it. There weren't any English version printed for these 2 books before this. These were the earliest Murakami's books written in 1979 & 1980, the first and second part of the Rat's series *if you are still following me. These 2 books are the most important books in the earliest part of Murakami's transition to being a full-time writer :D
The storyline weren't as strong and odd as others, but they are worth mentioning. I am still in love with them all :D I choose the right one even though all my other Murakami's books are from the left's ones version :( And it costed RM89.90 for a hard-cover ! If I waited for another 6 months, I'm pretty sure the paperback version will be released.
But love does crazy things and I bought it nonetheless ❤
PS : Oh, and they also published Murakami-san no tokoro, the printed and e-book version all in Japanese :( They aren't planning on translating everything to English. He answered to 3,716 questions that were asked to him from all those 37,465 questions *mine included. Now I really wish I can read Japanese :(
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Which design is better? The one published by Knopf (left) or by Harvill Secker (right)?
ReplyDeleteMind if you post their picture without the dusk jacket?
Thanks!
I chose Harvill Secker version for Pinball/Wind and Tsukuru Tazaki compared to all other novels by Vintage.
DeleteI love the silver hot stamping on the cover and the design itself, compared to the simple version by Knopf. I plastic-wrapped the book last week, so I can't take the picture of it without its cover, but if I'm not mistaken it's in full black - or maybe my memory is bad, I might be wrong :p