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Competition entry for Penguin's Vintage range. Audience: teens. A book cover designed for the coming-of-age novel by Haruki Murakami.

The front cover represents the overall emotion of grief, which permeates a story of loss and psychological decline, resulting in a suicide by hanging.

The back cover represents the snow-capped hills where a couple fell in love, and one life ends. A vision of the suffering beauty appears to her lover among the blossom of a cherry tree.

Colours from Japan complement the Japanese setting and author. The cool blue symbolises an overall sadness.