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Haruki Murakami's new novel will be translated into English in 2014

Murakami's novel 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and the Year of His Pilgrimage' is already a bestseller in Japan.

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Haruki Murakami receives the Jerusalem Award during the International Book Festival.

Haruki Murakami fans, you can let out that breath you鈥檝e been holding: the writer鈥檚 latest novel is now scheduled to be translated into English.

鈥淐olorless Tsukuru Tazaki and the Year of His Pilgrimage鈥 will be published in English sometime in 2014, Knopf Doubleday executive director of media relations Paul Bogaards told the website .

The book is also scheduled to be translated into Spanish this October, according to the website .

鈥淐olorless Tsukuru Tazaki and the Year of His Pilgrimage鈥 became a bestseller when it was released in the author鈥檚 home country of Japan in April, with many readers waiting in line for the novel鈥檚 midnight release. Sales of the book set a record and the novel is now the fastest-selling book in the history of Amazon Japan, according to the . Murakami鈥檚 previous work, 鈥1Q84,鈥 was acclaimed in the US and the UK when its English translation was released in 2011, in addition to making it onto the longlist for the Man Asian Literary Prize for that year.

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