Description

• Originally published under the title Hitsuji o meguru bōken [Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1982]
• Murakami’s third novel and first to be translated into English [his first two novels were translated as bilingual editions for students]
• Translated by Alfred Birnbaum
• Winner of the 1982 Noma Literary Newcomer’s Prize [Japan]
• First Edition in English [Kodansha International, New York, 1989]; [iv], 300 pages; green cloth over blue papered boards, silver titling to spine, lightly rubbed on base, sunned on top edge, a near-fine copy; in like illustrated dustjacket, unclipped [$18.95], spine faded a bit, extremities gently bumped; ISBN 0-87011-905-2 / 0870119052