Wind/ Pinball Two Novels

Wind/Pinball: Two Novels by Haruki Murakami presents the author’s first two books — never previously published in English — revealing the earliest expression of the themes and obsessions that would define one of the most beloved literary careers of our time. Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973, both published in Japan in the late 1970s, show a young Murakami already in command of his distinctive voice: the jazz and rock references, the nameless narrator adrift in Tokyo, the female characters who appear and vanish, the melancholy and the dry wit. For readers who love Murakami’s mature novels, these early works are essential — revelatory in their ambition and already accomplished in their execution. Published in a new edition, they offer an extraordinary view of a major literary imagination in its earliest stages.