The Friday Face-Off: Fish

Welcome to The Friday Face-Off, a weekly meme here at Books by Proxy. Join us every Friday as we pit cover against cover, and publisher against publisher, to find the best artwork in our literary universe. You can find a list of upcoming topics at Lynn's Books.

This week's topic is:
‘Two little fishes and a momma fishy too’ – A cover featuring a fish/fishes or other sea creatures

I thought this would be a fun topic, and it was! I didn't remember that Haruki Murakami's After Dark had fish on some of its covers (and frogs!) until I came across while looking for books to use, so I was pleasantly surprised because I knew there'd be many covers to choose from. I picked a few rather different ones to give an idea of how wide-ranging in style some of these are.

  

2002 Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover|| 2003 Paperback Vintage || 2006 Romanian

  

2002 French || 2010 Czech || 2009 Greek

2014 Romanian || 2003 Croatian || 2006 Russian

My choice(s):

I'm torn! I like the Romanian one quite a bit for some reason, the Croatian one's fish looks cute, and the Russian and Greek ones are gorgeous! But...I also like the US Vintage edition as well, so...¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Which covers do you like best?

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