Wind/Pinball - Haruki Murakami

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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 SingandPinball, 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, withA Wild Sheep Chase, of thetrilogy of the Rat.

Widely available in English for the first time ever, newly translated, and featuring a new introduction by Murakami himself,Wind/Pinballgives us a fascinating insight into a great writer's beginnings.


From the Hardcover edition.