Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Been waiting for this...maybe a bit more...

I'll be getting to this sometime in the future, but time is tight...


The team that Murakami has at his American publishing house is simply phenomenal. This dust cover has cellophane windows that show the colors and subway map design underneath:


This is a beautiful artifact and Murakami's most sexually charged and possibly most complex narrative structure to date. I'm not done, but it is actually quite small. It isn't a normal size, especially for a hard-back book, but I don't have a good enough comparison picture yet.