02446cam a2200457 i 4500 1156226308 TxAuBib 20240228120000.0 151029t20162015||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780804170147 paperback 0804170142 paperback (OCoLC)928120088 TxAuBib rda eng jpn Murakami, Haruki, 1949-, author 1973-nen no pinbōru. Hear the wind sing ; And, Pinball, 1973 [BOOK] : a novel / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Ted Goossen. Pinball, 1973. Wind/Pinball. First Vintage International edition. New York : Vintage International/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016. ©2015. xvii, 101 pages, 131 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier No collective title page. Titles from individual title pages. Bound together back-to-back and inverted. " 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.". 20240228. Translated from the Japanese. Murakami, Haruki 1949- Translations into English. Young men Fiction. Loneliness Fiction. Pinball machines Fiction. Nineteen sixties Fiction. College students Fiction. Japan Fiction. Novellas. Coming of age Fiction. Goossen, Ted, translator.