So just as the book group decides, at last, to read a Haruki Murakami novel, he is all over the papers. According to Tuesday's edition of the i (my new favourite paper; what fantastic value for 20p), Murakami has developed from having a cult following to being a full-blown literary phenomenon. The piece focused on the release this week of his new book 1Q84 (an alternate 1984) which apparently required some retailers to have a Potteresque midnight opening. The i predicts superstar status in the UK.....so it is just as well we are reading one of his books now. He's obviously a sensible sort of chap as he is currently visiting writer at the University of Hawaii .......in a hammock with the laptop under a palm tree, writing to the music of crashing waves and exotic birdsong. How perfectly lovely.
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