Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

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Surreal early Murakami, nostalgic and evocatively odd.

If you're intrigued by the way everyday moments can transform into surreal worlds brushed with a tinge of nostalgia, "Wind/Pinball" could be your gateway to Murakami's unique style. These early novels lay the groundwork for his later, more complex works, offering a look into the quiet lives of characters who find significance in the mundane, with undercurrents of longing and the oddity that's so quintessentially Murakami.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

Regular price $17.90
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ISBN: 9780385352123
Publisher: Knopf
Date of Publication: 2015-08-04
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Goodreads rating: 3.53
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Discover Haruki Murakami's first two novels. Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's earliest novels. They follow the fortunes of the narrator and his friend, known only by his nickname, the Rat. In Hear the Wind Sing, the narrator is home from college on his summer break. He spends his time drinking beer and smoking in J's Bar with the Rat, listening to the radio, thinking about writing and the women he has slept with, and pursuing a relationship with a girl with nine fingers. Three years later, in Pinball, 1973, he has moved to Tokyo to work as a translator and live with indistinguishable twin girls, but the Rat has remained behind, despite his efforts to leave both the town and his girlfriend. The narrator finds himself haunted by memories of his own doomed relationship but also, more bizarrely, by his short-lived obsession with playing pinball in J's Bar. This sends him on a quest to find the exact model of pinball machine he had enjoyed playing years earlier: the three-flipper Spaceship.
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Surreal early Murakami, nostalgic and evocatively odd.

If you're intrigued by the way everyday moments can transform into surreal worlds brushed with a tinge of nostalgia, "Wind/Pinball" could be your gateway to Murakami's unique style. These early novels lay the groundwork for his later, more complex works, offering a look into the quiet lives of characters who find significance in the mundane, with undercurrents of longing and the oddity that's so quintessentially Murakami.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.