Readers hungry for a new book by internationally acclaimed novelist Haruki Murakami have already turned his first work in five years into an instant best seller.
A total of 960,000 copies of the two-volume series “1Q84” had been sold by Saturday since it went on sale May 29, sending its publisher scrambling to make additional copies.
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