Two early novels by Haruki Murakami explore youth, loneliness, and nostalgia through a young man's memories and a quest for a pinball machine.
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Two early novels by Haruki Murakami explore youth, loneliness, and nostalgia through a young man's memories and a quest for a pinball machine.
Wind/Pinball includes Haruki Murakami’s first two novels, Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973. Home from college on his summer break, the narrator spends his time drinking beer and smoking with his friend nicknamed the Rat, listening to the radio, thinking about writing and pursuing a relationship with a girl with nine fingers. Three years later, in Pinball, 1973, he has moved to Tokyo to work as a translator and live with indistinguishable twin girls, but the Rat has remained behind. Haunted b...
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Brief mentions of past relationships and intimacy; not explicit.
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Frequent depictions of drinking beer and smoking; portrayed casually.
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Subtle cultural commentary on 1960s Japan; not central.
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