Overview
- Shinchosha, which announced the book Thursday, set a Japan release for July 3 with print and e-book editions.
- The novel follows Kaho, a 26-year-old picture book author, and marks Murakami’s first full-length work led by a woman.
- It revises and unifies four Kaho stories that ran in Shinchō magazine from June 2024 through March 2026.
- An English translation is in progress with no publication date, though an early installment appeared in The New Yorker in 2024 in Philip Gabriel’s translation.
- Murakami told the New York Times he finished the manuscript recently and wrote much of it after a serious illness, hinting at a more hopeful tone.