Wind/ Pinball - Two Novels

Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami''s two first novel - here they are together in one edition. Now I think it''s time to tell my story. Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami''s two first novels. Home from college on his summer break, the narrator spends his time drinking beer and smoking with his friend nicknamed the Rat, listening to the radio, thinking about writing and pursuing a relationship with a girl with nine fingers. Three years later he has moved to Tokyo to work as a translator and live with indistinguishable twin girls. But the Rat has remained behind. Haunted by memories of the past, the narrator embarks upon a quest to find the exact model of pinball machine he and the Rat had enjoyed playing years earlier: the three-flipper Spaceship. ''Quintessential Murakami...an excellent introduction to a writer who has since become one of the most influential novelists of his generation'' Guardian ''Murakami''s way of making emotionally resonant images and symbols bump around on the page, and in one''s mind, remains fresh'' Evening Standard WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

Product details

• Authors: Ted Goossen, Haruki Murakami
• Assisted by: Ted Goossen (Translation), Goossen Ted (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.07.2025
• EAN: 9781529957747
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-5774-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Magical Realism, Fiction in translation, Surrealism, Magical Realism, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / World Literature / Japan, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary