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Title	:	Pinball, 1973 (The Rat #2)
Author	:	Haruki Murakami
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 215 pages
Published	:	1980 by Kodansha International Ltd.
Categories	:	Fiction. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Cultural. Japan

Pinball, 1973 (The Rat #2) Paperback | Pages: 215 pages

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The plot centers on the narrator's brief but intense obsession with pinball, his life as a freelance translator, and his later efforts to reunite with the old pinball machine that he used to play. He describes living with a pair of identical unnamed female twins, who mysteriously appear in his apartment one morning, and disappear at the end of the book. Interspersed with the narrative are his memories of the Japanese student movement, and of his old girlfriend Naoko. The plot alternates between describing the life of narrator and that of his friend, The Rat.

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Original Title:	1973年のピンボール
ISBN:	4061860127 (ISBN13: 9784061860124)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Rat #2
Setting:	Japan

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It's nothing easy to review a Murakami even though this is just my second read. It's also one of his first writings which just recently got published.I say it's not easy because this is a short book. A snippet of what his work is like. All I can say is that I really loved it. This was not as random as the first part(Wind), it had more of a story or events that were consistent all way through.And as per one of his quotes, it did have an exit just like it has an entrance. Well somehow.I enjoyed

So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish. Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973Like Murakami's first novel Hear the Wind Sing (The Rat, #1), 'Pinball, 1973' (The Rat, #2) contains many of those elements that would define Murakami's fiction in the future. In someways this novel is both a story of loneliness and a love story between the protagonist and a specific Pinball machine. 'Hear the Wind Sing' seems to show early signs of Norwegian Wood, but

Have I not read A Wild Sheep Chase last year, I would probably find this book less engaging than any other of Murakami's later works. But this one is a prefect chain in the evolution from "slice of life" of Hear the Wind Sing to the bonkers of the Wild Sheep. And it's as always cozy, funny and warm in the only possible Murakamish way. Still, I prefer my Murakami with more supernatural to the story. No ice, but well shaken, so to say. 3,5.P.S. Fun fact - Rubber Soul is the only album by The

It is probably just my fault reading this right after HM's first novel, but the normal bag of tricks just didn't work for me. And maybe I am just cranky from too much air travel, but his one-dimensional female characters that only exist in the orbit of the men really started to irritate me (none of the females in this book were given names).

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 authors sad wish fulfilment fantasy) develops an obsession with pinball, specifically a pinball machine called Spaceship. One day his machine disappears. He half-heartedly goes looking for it. zzz This is part of Murakamis Rat series where a character called The Rat appears. Its even more

Sen-Kyūhyaku-Nanajū-San-Nen no Pinbōru = Pinball, 1973 (The Rat #2), Haruki MurakamiPinball, 1973 is a novel published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. 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.The plot centers on the narrator's brief but intense obsession with pinball, his life as a freelance translator, and his later efforts to reunite with the

I read this after A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance Dance Dance. At the time, it was INCREDIBLY hard to find in English or French translation (as was the first of the series Hear the Wind Sing!) I finally found it in a PDF I believe and loved it. It has some of the same characters as the later books and - although early Murakami - has the stylistic idioms that became part and parcel to Murakami's writing later on. I believe this book and Hear the Wind Sing are now available in a single volume. I