Ted Goossen
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
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A thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the...