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To be honest I can't be bothered to look up any figures, but Haruki has sold way more than Ryuu, and although he probably owes a fair bit of that to Norwegian Wood (the first part of which was Japan's highest selling book of all time for a while), he' s still the more popular of the two. It's hardly suprising either, his books are generally easier reading than Ryuu's.

You're right about his style though. In fact his prose is sometimes criticised for reading like a translation into Japanese of an English book.