A new novel by the Japanese author Haruki Murakami is set to hit bookshops this summer. The Tale of KAHO is an expansion of four interlinked short stories first serialised in the Japanese magazine Shincho, starting in 2024. Only the first of these stories, Kaho, has as yet been translated into English, by Philip Gabriel for The New Yorker.
The story’s narrator, Kaho, is a 26-year-old woman who illustrates children’s picturebooks. She has a bad date with a sinister man named Sahara who delights in telling women that they are ugly.
