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» came into being, followed by – «Pinball 1973». These works became a prologue to the global bestseller «A Wild Sheep Chase».

«During the summer of 1970, Krys and I drank a 25-meter swimming pool of beer and covered the floor of the «J's Bar» with a five-centimeter layer of peanut shells. If we hadn't done that, we simply wouldn't have survived; the summer was that boring.» Behind the facade of boredom lurk ghosts: a vanished classmate, a deceased lover, and a strange girl from the record store.

In «Pinball 1973», reality finally thins out. The protagonist begins to live with mysterious twins and becomes obsessed with finding an old pinball machine called «Rocket». He is set to undergo a surreal quest to find the way out of the labyrinth of memory.