Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

from missizicks

Hear The Wind Sing is my favourite out of the two novellas in this pairing. I've read both before, but in different translations. I enjoyed these versions. Pinball 1973 has some interesting ideas, but is quite stilted. Hear The Wind Sing feels more complete as a story.

from pgmcc

Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball are English translations of Haruki Murakami's first two novels which were published together in a one volume edition in 2015. In a forward to this volume the author gives an overview of how he started writing. I found this very interesting and could relate some of h...

from crosbyp

Wind seemed to take several dozen pages to find itself, but this early Murakami was vintage Murakami in the end. Bland, rather obsessive, everymen find quirky individuals to hang out with. Boy there was a lot of beer drinking and cigarette smoking in this one. Remove the word "beer" and these nov...

from jnwelch

"What I was seeking by writing first in English and then 'translating' into Japanese was no less than the creation of an unadorned 'neutral' style that would allow me freer movement. . . . I wanted to deploy a type of Japanese as far removed as possible from so-called literary language in order t...

from renbedell

The two novellas in this book are great stories written in typical Haruki Murakami fashion. They both don't really make too much sense and the plot is about as mundane as you can get, but it is written so well that it really sucks you in. Weird things happen to the main characters life, but it's ...