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NATIONAL BESTSELLERWind/Pinball, a unique two-in-one volume, includes, on one side, Murakamis first novelHear the Wind Sing. When you flip the book over, you can read his second novel,Pinball, 1973. Each book has its own stunning cover.
In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novelsHear the Wind SingandPinball, 1973that 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 agethe unnamed narrator and his friend the Ratare stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism. They bear all the hallmarks of Murakamis later books, and form the first two-thirds, withA Wild Sheep Chase, of thetrilogy of the Rat.
Widely available in English for the first time ever, newly translated, and featuring a new introduction by Murakami himself,Wind/Pinballgives us a fascinating insight into a great writers beginnings.