Wind/Pinball: Two Novels (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780385352123)

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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.

Author: Haruki Murakami
ISBN-10: 0385352123
ISBN-13: 9780385352123
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 08/04/2015
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/15/2015 pg. 83
Publishers Weekly 06/08/2015
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2015
Library Journal 08/01/2015 pg. 87
Booklist 08/01/2015 pg. 30
New York Times Book Review 08/16/2015 pg. 16
Shelf Awareness 08/21/2015
Library Journal 03/15/2015