Wind/Pinball: Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973

By Haruki Murakami

Book Overview

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 young 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385352123
• ISBN13: 9780385352123
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"