Hear the Wind Song. Pinball 1973. A Wild Sheep Chase (Set of 2 books)

«Hear the Wind Song. Pinball 1973»

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

«In the summer of 1970, Krys and I drank a 25-meter swimming pool full of beer and covered the floor of the 'J's Bar' with a five-centimeter layer of peanut shells. If we had not done that, we simply would not have survived, it was such a boring summer.» Behind the facade of boredom hide ghosts: a vanished 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 go through a surreal quest to find a way out of the labyrinth of memory.

«A Wild Sheep Chase»

«An old friend informed me of her death over the phone…»

This is how «A Wild Sheep Chase» begins — perhaps the strangest journey through the nooks of the modern world and human consciousness, conceived by the legend of modern literature, Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. This novel became an absolute global bestseller: the «wild sheep chase» in our souls will never end!

So, call the police, ask for the address and phone number of the family, then call the family and find out the date and time of the funeral. And then, on the appointed day, take the suburban train from Waseda station. And hope that the hunt will be successful…