Cats, women's ears and awkward sex...what do you think Haruki Murakami's follow-up to 1Q84 will be about?
Much excitement for Haruki
Murakami fans today after his Japanese publisher announced that he'd be publishing a new novel
this April. It's been three years since the original edition of the last volume
of Murakami's 1Q84 was published in Japanese – a little over a year since it was
published in English translation - so readers are understandably hungry for
more, but no details other than the publication date, not even the title, were
given away by Bungeishunju.
It's "the worst form of
teasing possible", concludes the Japan
Daily Press, mournfully. Fans are in a frenzy of
excitement , and in the absence of any more information, are speculating about
what the book will cover.
"I bet it will contain ear
porn, a lonely man, a teenage/under-age girl, the war in Manchuria [and] some
cooking," opines
one reader, probably fairly accurately. The NY Daily News, meanwhile, predicts
that it's "safe to bet that there will be cats (that may or may not talk) and
probably some awkward sex, too", while there's also
talk that it could be a fourth part to 1Q84.
What we need, I feel, is a Haruki Murakami plot generator to keep us going
until the mystery book is translated into English. It's that, or learn Japanese.
Can anybody help out? It must start with a disappearing cat,
surely...
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