Pinball, 1973, Haruki Murakami
Pinball, 1973, Haruki Murakami
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Pinball, 1973

Author: Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Unabridged: 4 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/04/2015

Synopsis

Published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, Pnball, 1973 is the second book in the "Trilogy of the Rat" series. It is preceded by Hear the Wind Sing (1979) and followed by A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), and is the second novel written by Murakami.

About The Author

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages. The most recent of his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul.

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Goodreads review by Sam

Haruki Murakami tends to write two kinds of novel: ones with a story and ones without; Pinball, 1973 is unfortunately the latter. A translator with twin live-in girlfriends (I know, just humour the author’s sad wish fulfilment fantasy) develops an obsession with pinball, specifically a pinball machi......more

Goodreads review by Mark

Haruki Murakami writes about the ordinary, the bland, and he makes it readable and enjoyable. I am riveted reading this stuff. This ordinary world he paints throws up some extra-ordinarily bizarre events. Non sequiturs of the highest order are thrown around too. Life can be like that, hey? Pinball, 1......more

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