Pinball
- Publisher : Penguin Random House
- Publishing year : May 2016
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9781784704704
- Imprint : Vintage Classics
- Age Group : Adult
- Language : English
Pinball, 1973 is Murakami's second novel, available for the first time in English outside Japan. Pinball, 1973 picks up ...
Pinball, 1973 is Murakami's second novel, available for the first time in English outside Japan. Pinball, 1973 picks up three years after the events of Hear the Wind Sing. 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.
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, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami’s unique and addictive fictional universe.
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