Shinchosha Announces 16-Volume Haruki Murakami Complete Works Collection
The 16-volume set gathers nearly all of Murakami's novels plus author-selected nonfiction and essays, opening with the complete 1Q84 in a single volume, and carries recommendation comments from Hirohiko Araki and Machi Tawara.
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Shinchosha announced on September 1 that it will publish Murakami Haruki WORKS, a 16-volume complete works collection covering nearly half a century of the author's writing, as part of its 130th anniversary program. The set opens with volume 8, the complete 1Q84 in one book, on January 27, 2027, followed by one volume every two months. Recommendation comments come from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure creator Hirohiko Araki and poet Machi Tawara.
The first volume, volume 8 containing the complete 1Q84, ships January 27, 2027 at 18,700 yen including tax, with later volumes priced 11,000 to 17,000 yen excluding tax. Cover art comes from Mizumaru Anzai, and each volume carries the author's own commentary on the work. Buyers of the first five volumes receive a free booklet of essays Murakami never collected in book form.
- Volume 1, Long Novel I: Second distribution, March 2027: Hear the Wind Sing, Pinball 1973, A Wild Sheep Chase
- Volume 2, Long Novel II: Third distribution, May 2027: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- Volume 3, Long Novel III: Sixth distribution, November 2027: Norwegian Wood
- Volume 4, Long Novel IV: Eighth distribution, March 2028: Dance Dance Dance
- Volume 5, Long Novel V: Twelfth distribution, November 2028: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, complete
- Volume 6, Long Novel VI: Tenth distribution, July 2028: Sputnik Sweetheart, After Dark
- Volume 7, Long Novel VII: Fourteenth distribution, March 2029: Kafka on the Shore
- Volume 8, Long Novel VIII: First distribution, January 2027: 1Q84, complete
- Volume 9, Long Novel IX: Fifth distribution, September 2027: South of the Border, West of the Sun; Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
- Volume 10, Long Novel X: Ninth distribution, May 2028: Killing Commendatore, complete
- Volume 11, Long Novel XI: Fifteenth distribution, May 2029: The City and Its Uncertain Walls
- Volume 12, Linked Short Story Collection: Thirteenth distribution, January 2029: Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, After the Quake, Tokyo Legends, Men Without Women, First Person Singular
- Volume 13, (Almost) All Short Stories: Seventh distribution, January 2028: includes uncollected works
- Volume 14, Nonfiction: Eleventh distribution, September 2028: Underground, Underground 2
- Volume 15, Essays: Fourth distribution, July 2027: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Novelist as a Vocation, and more
- Volume 16, Latest Works: Sixteenth distribution, July 2029: Kaho The Tale of KAHO and others
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