Haruki Murakami's new book on sale
Circulation already 500,000 copies
April 12, 2013, Tokyo, Japan - Copies of long-awaited new novel of Japanese author Haruki Murakami are stacked up high at Sanseido book store in Tokyo on Friday, April 12, 2013.
The book, titled "Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage," is the first work by Japan's most celebrated author in three years. A monumental number of copies - a half a million - has been printed. (Photo by Natsuki Sakai/AFLO) AYF -mis-