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Wind/Pinball: Two novels
by Haruki Murakami

Published: 2015-08-04
Hardcover : 256 pages
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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.

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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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  "This is an early work by this author which may please fans but left me adrift."by Gail R. (see profile) 08/09/15

Wind/Pinball, Haruki Morakami, translator from Japanese, Ted Goossen, narrator is Kirby Heyborne
These are the first two novels/novellas written by the author, and they were supposedly penn
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