Paging Haruki Murakami fans: The author is set to release a new novel this April, according to a brief statement from his publishing company in Japan.

The book will come out three years after Mr. Murakami published the final volume of his labyrinthine "1Q84" trilogy, which was later released as a single, mammoth volume in English.

Mr. Murakami, author of "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" and other best-selling works, is known for his experimental narratives that interweave the surreal with the mundane. He attracts a huge global following of readers, who speculate annually about his prospects for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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