Pinball, 1973

A nostalgic, jazz-soaked love-letter to a youth spent in pursuit of simple pleasures, from the Japan''s most celebrated contemporary storyteller, Haruki Murakami Haunted by memories of a doomed love affair, and living in something of a strange hiatus in Tokyo, Pinball, 1973 ''s narrator finds himself dreaming of the days he used to wile away playing pinball in J''s Bar. Until one day he embarks on a quest: to find the exact model of pinball machine he played years earlier - the infamous three-flipper Spaceship. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

Product details

• Authors: Haruki Murakami
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 02.07.2026
• EAN: 9781529981032
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-8103-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Brief Encounters
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Tokyo, FICTION / Magical Realism, Fiction in translation, Magical Realism, FICTION / World Literature / Japan, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: love / relationships