{"product_id":"wind-pinball-haruki-murakami","title":"Wind\/ Pinball (Haruki Murakami)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHear the Wind Sing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePinball, 1973\u003c\/i\u003e are Haruki Murakami's two first novel - here they are together in one edition. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNow I think it's time to tell my story.\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 two first novels. 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 he has moved to Tokyo to work as a translator and live with indistinguishable twin girls. But the Rat has remained behind. Haunted by memories of the past, the narrator embarks upon a quest to find the exact model of pinball machine he and the Rat had enjoyed playing years earlier: the three-flipper Spaceship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Quintessential Murakami...an excellent introduction to a writer who has since become one of the most influential novelists of his generation' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Murakami's way of making emotionally resonant images and symbols bump around on the page, and in one's mind, remains fresh' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I was so taken with its atmosphere that I read and reread it' Patti Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR\u003c\/b\u003e\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":65820911337821,"sku":"K098457859","price":11.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9845785900001A.jpg?v=1788634172","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/wind-pinball-haruki-murakami","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}