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Wind/ Pinball

Two Novels
By Haruki Murakami
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Discover Haruki Murakami's first two novels. Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's first two novels, and here they are together in one edition. Now I think it's time to tell my story. Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's... Read More
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Wind/ Pinball

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Discover Haruki Murakami's first two novels.

Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's first two novels, and here they are together in one edition.

Now I think it's time to tell my story.

Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's first two novels. Home from college on his summer break, the narrator spends his time drinking beer and smoking with his friend nicknamed the Rat, listening to the radio, thinking about writing, and pursuing a relationship with a girl with nine fingers. Three years later, he has moved to Tokyo to work as a translator and live with indistinguishable twin girls. But the Rat has remained behind. Haunted by memories of the past, the narrator embarks upon a quest to find the exact model of pinball machine he and the Rat had enjoyed playing years earlier—the three-flipper Spaceship.

Quintessential Murakami... an excellent introduction to a writer who has since become one of the most influential novelists of his generation - Guardian

Murakami's way of making emotionally resonant images and symbols bump around on the page, and in one's mind, remains fresh - Evening Standard

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529957747

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 July 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Contributors:

  • Translated by Ted Goossen

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 236g

Pages: 336

Collections

Fantasy Fiction General Fiction Haruki Murakami Literary Fiction Penguin Books Sci-Fi & Fantasy

About the Author

Haruki Murakami (Author) In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers. Ted Goossen (Translator) Theodore (Ted) Goossen has translated the work of many Japanese writers, most notably Naoya Shiga, Haruki Murakami, and Hiromi Kawakami. He is the editor of The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (1997) and the co-editor and founder, with Motoyuki Shibata, of the annual literary journal Monkey Business (now Monkey- new writing from Japan), which, since 2011, has introduced a new generation of Japanese writers to English-speaking readers. Essays and stories by, as well as interviews with, Murakami are a staple of every issue.

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