If you're intrigued by the blend of the ordinary with the surreal, Wind/Pinball offers a rare glimpse into Murakami's early style. It's like a literary time capsule, granting you access to the raw formative moments of a now-celebrated author. These early works stitch together loneliness, quirky obsessions, and the pangs of youth in a way that will make you feel both adrift and intimately grounded in Murakami's distinct universe.

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERWind/Pinball, a unique two-in-one volume, includes, on one side, Murakami’s first novel  Hear 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 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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