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Hear the Wind Sing
Haruki Murakami
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Description for Hear the Wind Sing
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 112 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 102.
Hear the Wind Sing is Murakami's first novel, available for the first time in English outside Japan.
In Hear the Wind Sing 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.
The story of the narrator, the Rat and J continues in Pinball, 1973.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099590422
SKU
V9780099590422
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About Haruki Murakami
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Hear the Wind Sing
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
Hannah Beckerman
Observer
Murakami’s way of making emotionally resonant images and symbols bump around on the page, and in one’s mind, remains ... Read more
Hannah Beckerman
Observer
Murakami’s way of making emotionally resonant images and symbols bump around on the page, and in one’s mind, remains ... Read more