{"product_id":"wind-pinball-haruki-murakami-9780099590392","title":"Wind \/ Pinball (Haruki Murakami)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover Haruki Murakami's first two novels.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'If you're the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens at three o'clock in the morning, you can only write accordingly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That's who I am.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHear the Wind Sing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePinball, 1973\u003c\/i\u003e are Haruki Murakami's earliest novels. They follow the fortunes of the narrator and his friend, known only by his nickname, the Rat. In \u003ci\u003eHear the Wind Sing\u003c\/i\u003e the narrator is home from college on his summer break. He spends his time drinking beer and smoking in J's Bar with the Rat, listening to the radio, thinking about writing and the women he has slept with, and pursuing a relationship with a girl with nine fingers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Three years later, in \u003ci\u003ePinball, 1973\u003c\/i\u003e, he has moved to Tokyo to work as a translator and live with indistinguishable twin girls, but the Rat has remained behind, despite his efforts to leave both the town and his girlfriend. The narrator finds himself haunted by memories of his own doomed relationship but also, more bizarrely, by his short-lived obsession with playing pinball in J's Bar. This sends him on a quest to find the exact model of pinball machine he had enjoyed playing years earlier: the three-flipper Spaceship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1978, \u003cb\u003eHaruki Murakami\u003c\/b\u003e was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, \u003ci\u003eHear the Wind Sing\u003c\/i\u003e, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including \u003ci\u003eA Wild Sheep Chase\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHard-Boiled Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eEnd of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, but it was \u003ci\u003eNorwegian Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn works such as \u003ci\u003eThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e1Q84,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFirst Person Singular\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe City and Its Uncertain Walls\u003c\/i\u003e Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheodore (Ted) Goossen has translated the work\u003cbr\u003eof many Japanese writers, most notably Naoya\u003cbr\u003eShiga, Haruki Murakami, and Hiromi Kawakami.\u003cbr\u003eHe is the editor of The Oxford Book of Japanese\u003cbr\u003eShort Stories (1997) and the co-editor and founder, with Motoyuki Shibata, of the annual\u003cbr\u003eliterary journal Monkey Business (now Monkey:\u003cbr\u003enew writing from Japan), which, since 2011, has\u003cbr\u003eintroduced a new generation of Japanese writers to English-speaking readers. Essays and stories by, as well as interviews with, Murakami are a staple of every issue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 336 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65903078539613,"sku":"K054777150","price":12.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/5477715000001A.jpg?v=1789218005","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/wind-pinball-haruki-murakami-9780099590392","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}