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„Oricine se indragosteste cauta de fapt bucati pierdute din propria-i viata. Si oricine se indragosteste se intristeaza cind se gindeste la cel iubit. E ca si cum te-ai intoarce intr-o camera cu amintiri dragi, o camera de mult parasita.” (Haruki Murakami)

Traducere din limba japoneza de Iuliana si Florin Oprina In volumul sau de povestiri, care, poate nu intimplator, imprumuta titlul celui de-al doilea volum de proza scurta al lui Ernest Hemingway, Haruki Murakami deseneaza relieful interior al unor barbati care fie au pierdut, fie n-au avut nicicind pe cineva. Fara ezitari, abil si nuantat, Murakami exploreaza peisajul lucrurilor care ii unesc sau ii despart pe barbati de femei, vorbind despre singuratatea barbatului, sexualitate si excentricitate, despre pierderi, regasiri si efectele devastatoare ale unor evenimente aparent minore; personajele lui sint minate in lupta de permanenta cautare a unui echilibru, a unui adevar si a unui fel de a-ti trai viata care sa impace sinele tau adevarat cu asteptarile celorlalti.

''M-am hotărât să nu urmez nici o mișcare literară, nici o ideologie, nici un -ism. Toate m-au dezamăgit.'' (Haruki Murakami)

Viata linistita a lui Hajime, proprietarul unui bar din Tokyo, este tulburata de amintirea unei povesti de dragoste din tinerete.

Toti sint oameni ai noptii bintuiti de secrete si dorinte nelamurite, iar legaturile dintre ei se limpezesc incetul cu incetul pe parcursul cartii, construind un univers nocturn plin de farmecul, subtilitatea si umorul caracteristice romanelor lui Murakami.

Haruki Murakami's first two novels, available for the first time in English outside Japan. With a new introduction by the author. 'If you're the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens at three o'clock in the morning, you can only write accordingly. That's who I am.' Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's earliest novels. They follow the fortunes of the narrator and his friend, known only by his nickname, the Rat. In Hear the Wind Sing the narrator is home from college on his summer break. He spends his time drinking beer and smoking in J's Bar with the Rat, listening to the radio, thinking about writing and the women he has slept with, and pursuing a relationship with a girl with nine fingers. Three years later, in Pinball, 1973, he has moved to Tokyo to work as a translator and live with indistinguishable twin girls, but the Rat has remained behind, despite his efforts to leave both the town and his girlfriend. The narrator finds himself haunted by memories of his own doomed relationship but also, more bizarrely, by his short-lived obsession with playing pinball in J's Bar. This sends him on a quest to find the exact model of pinball machine he had enjoyed playing years earlier: the three-flipper Spaceship.

Actiunea romanului debuteaza intr-o suburbie linistita din Tokyo, unde tinarul Toru Okada isi duce existenta deloc iesita din comun alaturi de sotia sa. O intimplare aparent banala – disparitia motanului familiei – da peste cap viata protagonistului, ce se vede prins in paienjenisul unei lumi fantastice, care intersecteaza in mod straniu realitatea de zi cu zi.