TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murakami,Haruki
AU  - Goossen,Ted
AU  - Murakami,Haruki
AU  - Murakami,Haruki
TI  - Wind: Pinball : two novels 
SN  - 9780804170147 
AV  - PL856.U673 A2 2015
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage 
KW  - Young men
KW  - Fiction
KW  - College students
KW  - Japan
KW  - Loneliness
KW  - Pinball machines
KW  - Nineteen sixties
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novellas
N1  - Hear the wind sing --; Pinball, 1973
N2  - The debut short novels -- nearly thirty years out of print -- by the internationally acclaimed writer, newly retranslated and in one English-language volume for the first time, with a new introduction by the author. These prequels to A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance Dance Dance center on two young men -- an unnamed narrator and his friend and former roommate, the Rat. Surreal stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism, these novellas bear all the hallmarks of Murakami's later books. Here too is an exclusive essay by Murakami in which he explores and explains his decision to become a writer
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