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Wind / Pinball: Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 (Rat, Bks 1-2)
Wind / Pinball Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball 1973 - Rat, Bks 1-2 Author:Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen (Translator) In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels -- Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 -- that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. — These powerful, at times surreal, works about two you... more »ng men coming of age -- the unnamed narrator and his friend the Rat -- are stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism. They bear all the hallmarks of Murakami’s later books, and form the first two-thirds, with A Wild Sheep Chase, of the trilogy of the Rat.
Widely available in English for the first time ever, newly translated, and featuring a new introduction by Murakami himself, Wind / Pinball gives us a fascinating insight into a great writer’s beginnings.« less