Wind/Pinball : two novels
(Book)

The book is a completely new translation of Haruki Murakami's novels Hear the Wind Sing (originally published in Japan as Kaze no uta o kike in 1979) and Pinball, 1973 (originally published in Japan as 1973 nen no pinbōru in 1980).

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.

Translated from the Japanese.