Wind/Pinball includes Haruki Murakami's first two novels, published back-to-back, available for the first time in English outside Japan. With a new introduction by the author.
In 1978, Haruki Murakami 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, Hear
the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the
following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was
Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a
writer into a phenomenon.
In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk
About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, 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.
Murakami fans will no doubt delight in this new publication. For
newcomers, these early works are an excellent introduction to a
writer who has since become one of the most influential novelists
of his generation
*Observer*
Murakami’s way of making emotionally resonant images and symbols
bump around on the page, and in one’s mind, remains fresh,
miraculously, more than 35 years on
*Evening Standard*
Wind/Pinball is a fresh, heart-warming dose of the Japanese
master
*Economist*
quintessential Murakami… an excellent introduction to a writer who
has since become one of the most influential novelists of his
generation
*Hannah Beckerman*
This two-for-the-price-of-one hardback really is something special…
The decorative covers are exquisite, but it is the literature
between them that cemented Murakami as one of the world’s most
celebrated writers
*Travel Guide*
Early Murakami isn’t Murakami-in-the-making, it’s already and
entirely Murakami
*Guardian*
bizarre and often surreal, these stories act as an intriguing
exploration into Murakami’s wacky mind and thought processes
*Herald*
Wind/Pinball makes a great introduction to Murakami for new
readers, and is a real treat for long-time fans
*Nudge*
From the very beginning, it seems, Murakami has had the ability to
make a story in which nothing happens seem completely irresistible.
And to make almost any degree of bizarreness seem completely
natural
*Skinny*
Which other author can remind you simultaneously of Fyodor
Dostoyevsky and JK Rowling, not merely within the same chapter but
on the same page?
*Independent*
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