Haruki Murakami’s next novel, The Tale of KAHO , will be published on July 3rd by Shinchosha Publishing Co, the AP reports . This will be Murakami’s first full-length novel since 2023’s The City and its Uncertain Walls (published in the US in 2024). According to the publisher, “Kaho is the first lone, woman protagonist featured in a full-length novel by Murakami”—a fact that’s particularly notable given feminist critiques of his oeuvre, as well as his own commentary . The Tale of KAHO , which follows a 26-year-old picture book author “finding a way out of a bizarre world,” is based on four short stories originally published in Japan’s Shinchō magazine, the final one just this past March.…