{"product_id":"windpinball-two-novels-9780385352123","title":"Wind\/Pinball: Two Novels","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels--\u003ci\u003eHear the Wind Sing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePinball, 1973\u003c\/i\u003e--that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These 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 \u003ci\u003eA Wild Sheep Chase\u003c\/i\u003e, of the trilogy of the Rat. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Widely available in English for the first time ever, newly translated, and featuring a new introduction by Murakami himself, \u003ci\u003eWind\/Pinball\u003c\/i\u003e gives us a fascinating insight into a great writer's beginnings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHARUKI MURAKAMI\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503293206802,"sku":"9780385352123","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fcf8c423-443b-4e5f-9451-2eed3e33e6e0.jpg?v=1730787596","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/windpinball-two-novels-9780385352123","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}