«Hear the Wind Song. Pinball 1973»
«In the summer of 1970, Krys and I drank a 25-meter swimming pool full 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; it was such a boring summer.»
Behind the facade of boredom, ghosts hide: a disappeared classmate, a deceased beloved, and a strange girl from the record store.
In «Pinball 1973,» reality becomes increasingly thin. The hero begins to live with mysterious twins and becomes obsessed with finding an old pinball machine called «Rocket.» He must embark on a surreal quest to find a way out of the labyrinth of memory.
«A Wild Sheep Chase»
Fate brings together an advertising agent, living half of himself, with a girl who blocks her ears. One evening, she predicts that a phone call will come and the conversation will be about sheep. The phone rings. The hunt has begun. The hero needs to find a special sheep with a star on its side. He has a month to do it, as the Almighty Sensei can die at any moment.
«A Wild Sheep Chase» is a mysterious and atmospheric novel that immerses the reader in a labyrinth of dreams, memories, and shifting reality. This work has become an absolute global bestseller, alongside such Murakami novels as «Norwegian Wood,» «The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,» «Kafka on the Shore,» and «1Q84.»
«Dance, Dance, Dance»
«…And then I finally realized: around me was utter darkness. No chink of light. The elevator doors silently closed behind me, and this darkness became black as asphalt varnish. I couldn't even distinguish my own hands. The music had disappeared as well. The chilly air reeked of some quinine.
And in this utter darkness, I stood, not breathing, all alone.»