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Pinball, 1973

Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Ted Goosen

Vintage Books, c2015

Other Title

1973 nen no pinbõru

1973年のピンボール

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"Pinball, 1973" originally published: Tokyo : Kodansha, 1980

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Pinball, 1973 is Murakami's second novel, available for the first time in English outside Japan. With a new introduction by the author. Pinball, 1973 picks up three years after the events of Murakami's debut novel, 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 J'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.

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