Hear The Wind Sing And Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami
Two Novels
Two linked early novellas follow a detached young narrator and his aimless friend through bars, a seaside hometown, and the early 1970s, tracing beer-soaked nights, tentative connections, and a quiet sense of dislocation. Later, working as a Tokyo translator and living with two enigmatic twins, he becomes obsessed with tracking down a beloved pinball machine from his past—a quixotic quest that turns into a meditation on memory, chance, and the stubborn emptiness of adulthood. Spare, deadpan episodes accumulate into a portrait of youth haunted by nostalgia, pop culture, and the distances that open between people and their former selves.
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- Published
- 2015
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- Japanese
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- 256
- Original Language
- Japanese
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- Hear the Wind Sing & Pinball, 1973
- Wind/Pinball
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