Deze serie duikt in de diepgaande thema's eenzaamheid, obsessie en het gevoelige innerlijke leven van jongvolwassenen op de drempel van volwassenheid. Het vermengt meesterlijk realiteit met surrealisme en biedt lezers een uniek perspectief op de introspectieve reizen van de personages. Verwacht melancholische, maar boeiende verhalen die complexe relaties en de zoektocht naar betekenis in een hedendaagse setting verkennen.
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 Jâe(tm)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.
Pinball, 1973 is Murakami's second novel, available for the first time in English outside Japan. With a new introduction by the author. Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakamiâe(tm)s earliest novels. They follow the fortunes of the narrator and his friend, known only by his nickname, the Rat. Pinball, 1973 picks up three years after the events of Hear the Wind Sing. The narrator 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 Jâe(tm)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.
A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase""is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami's international reputation. It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep within himself. Quirky and utterly captivating, A Wild Sheep Chase is Murakami at his astounding best.
Alternate cover edition here.High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance Dance Dance.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Wind/Pinball, a unique two-in-one volume, includes, on one side, Murakami’s first novel Hear the Wind Sing. When you flip the book over, you can read his second novel, Pinball, 1973. Each book has its own stunning cover. In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels—Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973—that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. 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 A Wild Sheep Chase, of the trilogy of the Rat. Widely available in English for the first time ever, newly translated, and featuring a new introduction by Murakami himself, Wind/Pinball gives us a fascinating insight into a great writer’s beginnings.
These first major works of fiction by Haruki Murakami center on two young men--an unnamed narrator and his friend and former roommate, the Rat. Powerful, at times surreal, stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism, these novellas bear all the hallmarks of Murakami's later books, giving us a fascinating insight into a great writer's beginnings, and are remarkable works of fiction in their own right. Here too is an exclusive essay by Murakami in which he explores and explains his decision to become a writer. Prequels to the much-beloved classics A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance Dance Dance, these early works are essential reading for Murakami completists and contemporary fiction lovers alike.
J'ecrivais toujours sur la table de la cuisine, tard dans la nuit, jusqu'au petit matin. C'est la raison pour laquelle je nomme ces deux romans ecrits sur la table de la cuisine. Avec beaucoup d'amour et une certaine gene... Pour rien au monde je ne voudrais les changer. Un peu comme de tres vieux amis. Peut-etre que je ne les rencontrerai plus, que je ne leur parlerai plus, mais il est certain que jamais je ne les oublierai. Ils sont precieux pour moi, irremplacables. Ils m'encouragent, me rechauffent le c ur. Apres trente-sept ans, Haruki Murakami autorise enfin la publication de ses deux premiers romans, Ecoute le chant du vent, laureat du prestigieux prix Gunzo 1979, suivi de Flipper, 1973, tous deux jusqu'ici inedits en France. Enfin traduits et reunis en un seul volume, precedes d'une preface de Murakami qui en explique la genese, ils composent les deux premiers tomes de la trilogie du Rat, que clot La Course au mouton sauvage."
Słuchaj pieśni wiatru i Flipper roku 1973 to dwie najwcześniejsze powieści Harukiego Murakamiego nigdy niepublikowane dotąd w Europie ani Stanach Zjednoczonych. Są to również dwie pierwsze części tak zwanej „tetralogii Szczura”, do której należą Przygoda z owcą i Tańcz, tańcz, tańcz. Ukazanie się ich w Polsce to prawdziwa gratka dla miłośników Murakamiego. Po raz pierwszy pojawia się w nich bezimienny bohater dobrze znany z kolejnych powieści, jego przyjaciel Szczur, chiński barman Jay, a także Naoko z Norwegian Wood. Akcja obu utworów toczy się we wczesnych latach siedemdziesiątych. W pierwszym, bohater jest studentem i spędza letnie wakacje w rodzinnym mieście w okolicach Kobe, w drugim ma dwadzieścia kilka lat i prowadzi z kolegą firmę tłumaczeniową. Jak zwykle u Murakamiego obie powieści przepełnione są muzyką popularną i klasyczną, aluzjami do filmów i książek, ale znajdziemy też cytat z ewangelii wg św. Mateusza, historie o Trockim, o tajemniczych bliźniaczkach, opowieść o konstruktorze flippera i stosunkach społecznych panujących na planecie Wenus...
