{"product_id":"wind-pinball-two-novels-9780385352123b","title":"Wind\/Pinball: Two Novels","description":"In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels - Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 - that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese powerful, at times surreal, works about two young men coming of age - the unnamed narrator and his friend the Rat - are stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism. They bear all the hallmarks of Murakami’s later books, and form the first two-thirds, with A Wild Sheep Chase, of the trilogy of the Rat. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWidely available in English for the first time ever, newly translated, and featuring a new introduction by Murakami himself, Wind\/Pinball gives us a fascinating insight into a great writer’s beginnings.","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42823582711888,"sku":"9780385352123B","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780385352123-l.jpg?v=1785892883","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/wind-pinball-two-novels-9780385352123b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}