Wind / pinball: two novels

R$ 101,90

Sinopse

Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami’s two first novels - here they are together in one edition.Now I think it’s time to tell my story.Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami’s two first novels. Home from college on his summer break, the narrator spends his time drinking beer and smoking with his friend nicknamed the Rat, listening to the radio, thinking about writing and pursuing a relationship with a girl with nine fingers. Three years later he has moved to Tokyo to work as a translator and live with indistinguishable twin girls. But the Rat has remained behind. Haunted by memories of the past, the narrator embarks upon a quest to find the exact model of pinball machine he and the Rat had enjoyed playing years earlier: the three-flipper Spaceship.‘Quintessential Murakami…an excellent introduction to a writer who has since become one of the most influential novelists of his generation’ Guardian'I was so taken with its atmosphere that I read and reread it' Patti Smith

Participantes

Autor: Haruki Murakami

Tradutor: Ted Goossen

Autor

HARUKI MURAKAMI

Haruki Murakami nasceu em Kyoto, no Japão, em janeiro de 1949. Cresceu em Kobe e se graduou na Universidade Waseda, em Tóquio. Viveu por quatro anos nos Estados Unidos, onde deu aulas em Princeton, e regressou ao país natal em 1995. É considerado um dos autores mais importantes da atual literatura japonesa. Sua obra foi traduzida para mais de quarenta idiomas e recebeu importantes prêmios, como o Yomiuri — que já foi concedido a autores como Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe e Kobo Abe — e o Franz Kafka Prize. O escritor vive atualmente nas proximidades de Tóquio. Publicou o relato Do que eu falo quando eu falo de corrida e os romances Minha querida Sputnik, Norwegian Wood, Kafka à beira-mar e Após o anoitecer.