07088cam a2200553 4500 259991688 TxAuBib 20160404120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385352130 0385352131 B00RKO3THA Amazon cbf84193-a2fe-423f-9874-faf17942d96d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 235279 2121222 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Murakami, Haruki, 1949- Wind/Pinball [Bridges eBook] : Two novels. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1208kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1037kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. japanese literature. Pinball. Fiction. Japan. HTML:"Elegiac, ambient, and matter-of-fact in [its] strangeness. . . . Given Murakami's fervent fan base and the enduring strangeness that characterizes his work, it's not surprising that an aura of mystery surrounds his first two novels: the only previous English translations were published in Japan and they've been difficult to find in the West. Now 1979's Hear the Wind Sing and the following year's Pinball, 1973, written while the budding author operated a Tokyo jazz club, are finally available in one volume as Wind/Pinball, and Murakami obsessives are in for a treat. All the hallmarks of Murakami are here at their genesis, including his seemingly simple style, which he describes in an indispensable foreword. . . . Both novels, of course, feature digressions on beer, historical oddballs, obscure trivia, and jazz.". HTML:Publishers Weekly. HTML: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. From the Hardcover edition.. "What establishes these two novellas as quintessential Murakami are not just the themes of isolation and loneliness that will characterise many of his later works, nor their colloquial style that positions them firmly in the familiar territory of classic American coming-of-age novels. It's that both stories hint at the unique, postmodern blend of the real and the surreal, the quotidian and the allegorical for which Murakami would later become famous. . . . 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.". HTML:The Guardian. "Powerful, unsettling, mature novels, replete with many of the same distinctive traits that characterize [Murakami's] later fiction: jazz, beer, a gentle surrealism, a tendency to treat the strange and the mysterious as mundane facts of life and characters haunted by an ineffable, pervasive melancholy. . . . Murakami gives his characters' quirks a humanizing legitimacy. . . . Both novels' metaphors, which are often beautifully suggestive, also cluster around certain core themes.". HTML:Chicago Tribune. HTML:"A sympathetic work that reads almost like a memoir. . . . Wind/Pinball is a playful introduction to Murakami's inventive style, tropes and all. . . . With a funhouse twist, the casual adventures of Wind/Pinball impart a self-aware honesty that will serve as inspiration for any aspiring writer while acting as mirrors to the emotional landscapes of our lives.". HTML:The Daily Californian. "Though these stories--two of the so-called Rat Trilogy--are more than 40 years old, marking the very beginning of Murakami's career, they are full of trademark turns. . . . There's a Beatles record on the turntable at all times, of course, offering the possibility of peace and love and unity. . . . It's interesting to see hints of the masterly novels to come.". HTML:Kirkus Reviews. HTML:"Electric. . . . A singular work--actually two singular works. . . . These short works are among Murakami's most carefully crafted offerings, full of raw talent, energy and magic, and totally worth getting lost in. . . . .. Murakami uses white space like Raymond Carver. . . . [Wind/Pinball] ranks with Murakami's strongest prose.". Electric Literature. HTML:"Electric. . . . A singular work--actually two singular works. . . . Among Murakami's most carefully crafted offerings, full of raw talent, energy and magic, and totally worth getting lost in. . . . .. Murakami uses white space like Raymond Carver. . . . [Wind/Pinball] ranks with Murakami's strongest prose.". Electric Literature. "The writing and, above all, Murakami's way of making emotionally resonant images and symbols bump around on the page, and in one's mind, remains fresh, miraculously, more than 35 years on.". HTML:Evening Standard. "Murakami's trademark postmodernist flourishes abound--disrupting the narrative to insert a song lyric, say, or a graphic of a T-shirt--and never fail to surprise and delight.". HTML:O, The Oprah Magazine. "A reading experience that causes personal reflection [and] thoughts larger than ourselves. . . . Even though they were released separately, combining the two works int. HTML:Huffington Post. "Short, darkly magical coming-of-age tales.". 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