[The Rat 02] • Pinball, 1973

[The Rat 02] • Pinball, 1973
Authors
Murakami, Haruki
Publisher
Kodansha International Ltd.
ISBN
9784061860124
Date
1980-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.14 MB
Lang
en
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Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. His work has been described by the Virginia Quarterly Review as "easily accessible, yet profoundly complex." Critics suggest his work draws from film noir and contains elements of magical realism.

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.