Listen to the Wind Song. Pinball 1973

During a baseball game, Haruki Murakami suddenly realized that he could write a book. Thus, the novel «Listen to the Wind Song» was born, followed by — «Pinball 1973». These works became the prologue to the global bestseller «A Wild Sheep Chase».

«During the summer of 1970, Krys and I drank a 25-meter pool of beer and covered the floor of the "Jays Bar" with a five-centimeter layer of peanut shells. If we hadn’t done that, we simply wouldn’t have survived, the summer was so boring».

Beneath the facade of boredom, ghosts hide: a missing classmate, a deceased beloved, and a strange girl from the record store.

In «Pinball 1973», reality is finally thinning. The hero begins to live with mysterious twins and becomes obsessed with finding an old arcade machine «Rocket». He will have to undergo a surreal quest to find a way out of the maze of memory.