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I can’t blame the publicists at Knopf for wanting to brag. In fact, if you happen to have received a review copy of the book - spirited onto your Kindle app, let’s say, by Amazon’s patented Whispernet ® because the American publisher ran out of physical copies to send to you - this is the first thing you’ll read: “ Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan.” In other words this book is a BIG DEAL. ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS you’ll hear about Haruki Murakami’s new novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, is that it went through eight printings the first week it was released in Japan, where fans camped out overnight to be among the first to buy the book.