Murakami, Haruki Wind/Pinball: Two Novels (0385352123)
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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 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.
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