Haruki Murakami to release first novel in three years with ‘The Tale of Kaho’

Haruki Murakami’s first novel in three years, ‘The Tale of Kaho,’ debuts July 3 with a female protagonist and a return to the uncanny. | Contesto: cronaca

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• Haruki Murakami to release first novel in three years with ‘The Tale of Kaho’

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Haruki Murakami, one of the world’s most celebrated living novelists, will release his first novel in three years on July 3. The new work, titled “The Tale of Kaho,” marks a significant departure for the author: it is his first novel to center on a female protagonist. The announcement, confirmed by his publisher, signals both a return to the surreal, uncanny storytelling that defined his early career and a bold new narrative direction. The novel’s title character, Kaho, is described in early promotional materials as a woman navigating a reality that shifts between the mundane and the mysterious. While specific plot details remain closely guarded, the book is being positioned as a return to the dreamlike, often unsettling atmosphere that made Murakami a global phenomenon with works such as “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” and “Kafka on the Shore.” This marks a notable pivot after his more recent, grounded novels such as “Killing Commendatore” and the semi-autobiographical “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.” The choice to write from a female perspective for the first time in a novel is generating considerable attention in literary circles. Murakami has faced criticism over the years for his portrayal of women, with some scholars and readers arguing that his female characters often serve as passive objects of male desire or mystical conduits for male self-discovery. “The Tale of Kaho” may represent a deliberate effort to address those critiques head-on, though the author himself has not commented publicly on the shift. Whether Kaho will be a fully realized, autonomous character or another iteration of Murakami’s familiar archetypes remains an open question. The three-year gap since his last novel, “Killing Commendatore” (2017 in English translation), is relatively short by Murakami’s standards, but it comes at a time when his readership is both vast and increasingly divided. While his books routinely sell millions of copies worldwide and he remains a perennial Nobel Prize favorite, some longtime fans have expressed fatigue with his recurring motifs—talking cats, parallel worlds, wells, and mysterious women. The announcement of a female-led story has...

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