The Blonde Goes to Japan

This was a nice surprise by mail today: copies of the Japanese edition of my 2006 novel, The Blonde. (Click on the image for a larger view.) The publisher is Hayakawa, who will also be bringing out an edition of Severance Package sometime this year. I really like the cover, with little motion lines off the title words, and a sultry blonde whose eye color rather creepily matches her lipstick. (Maybe a side effect of Proximity?) But I also really like the feel of the book itself, which is a little shorter that American mass market paperbacks, and features better quality paper and a nice little dustjacket, even though it is, indeed, a paperback. I'd happily tuck this into a pocket... if I could read Japanese. What do you guys think?