They are Britain's Neil Gaiman, Haruki Murakami of Japan, Canadian Kim Thuy and Maryse Conde of Guadeloupe.

他们是英国的尼尔·盖曼、日本的村上春树、加拿大的金翠和瓜德罗普岛的玛丽丝·康德。

But few novels can have been as hard to rework as “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, Haruki Murakami's surreal and unwieldy 600-page exploration of fear.

没有几本小说能像村上春树的《奇鸟行状录》——洋洋洒洒六百 多页对恐惧的超现实主义且难以处理的探索——一样难以被改编。

Publishers used to ask for the next Haruki Murakami, says David Boyd, a translator who has worked on Ms. Kabakami's books.

曾为卡巴卡米女士的书籍工作过的翻译大卫·博伊德 (David Boyd) 说，出版商过去常常要求出现下一个村上春树。