{"product_id":"wind-pinball-hardcover","title":"Wind\/ Pinball [HARDCOVER]","description":"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWind\/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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished as a reversible hardback\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThat’s who I am.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHear the Wind Sing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePinball, 1973\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHear the Wind Sing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThree years later, in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePinball, 1973\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\/span\u003e","brand":"Best of Used books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":43882902913281,"sku":"2BNZ2Q6DE-Used","price":299.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/4299\/0495\/products\/Wind_52021ff1-8ad1-47bf-a6bd-21b2998ed464.jpg?v=1627244653","url":"https:\/\/bestofusedbooks.com\/products\/wind-pinball-hardcover","provider":"Best Of Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}