Just a few days ago I mentioned that a new Murakami Haruki -- The Strange Library -- will be published later this year.
Now comes word that, as Dianna Dilworth reports at GalleyCat, Haruki Murakami's First Two Novels Are Coming in New English Translation.
As agent Curtis Brown confirms, a one-volume edition of Murakami's early novels, Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball 1973 -- long hard to find in Alfred Birnbaum's Kodansha-published translations -- will be published in new translations by Ted Goosen by Knopf (US) and Harvill Secker (UK) in the fall of 2015.
No word why the Birnbaum translations aren't considered up to snuff any longer .....
As agent Curtis Brown confirms, a one-volume edition of Murakami's early novels, Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball 1973 -- long hard to find in Alfred Birnbaum's Kodansha-published translations -- will be published in new translations by Ted Goosen by Knopf (US) and Harvill Secker (UK) in the fall of 2015.
No word why the Birnbaum translations aren't considered up to snuff any longer .....