Wind/ Pinball

NATIONAL BESTSELLER. Wind/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 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.