Haruki Murakami: "Think of me like an endangered species"

Haruki Murakami: Try To Talk To Me, I May Bite You
Publicity-shy Japanese author Haruki Murakami arrives to give a public lecture in Kyoto on May 6, 2013. The author, whose new novel 'Shikisai wo Motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to Kare no Junrei no Toshi' (Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage) was released in Japan on April 12, divides his time between his native Japan and the US and rarely appears in public. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)
Publicity-shy Japanese author Haruki Murakami arrives to give a public lecture in Kyoto on May 6, 2013. The author, whose new novel 'Shikisai wo Motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to Kare no Junrei no Toshi' (Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage) was released in Japan on April 12, divides his time between his native Japan and the US and rarely appears in public. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)

The famously taciturn novelist Haruki Murakami has made his first appearance in Japan since 1995. Murakami’s new novel – Shikisai wo Motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to Kare no Junrei no Toshi (the English reads Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and the Year of His Pilgrimage, though this title may change) – has been selling over a million copies each week since the Japanese edition went on sale last month, according to the Associated Press.

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