About “Pinball, 1973”

Pinball, 1973 is a novel published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. It is the second book in the "Trilogy of the Rat" series, preceded by Hear the Wind Sing (1979) and followed by A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), and is the second novel Murakami wrote. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)

Praise for “Pinball, 1973”

“More than anyone, Haruki Murakami invented 21st-century fiction. . . . He is the novelist of our mash-up epoch. . . . Murakami’s atomic sensibility characterizes world literature.”

— The New York Times Book Review

“Powerful, unsettling, mature novels. . . . Murakami gives his characters' quirks a humanizing legitimacy.”

— Chicago Tribune

“Early Murakami isn’t Murakami-in-the-making, it’s already and entirely Murakami.”

— The Guardian

Book details

Published
1980

Frequently asked questions

How many pages is Pinball, 1973?

Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami has 215 pages.

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Some summaries adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Book descriptions, author biographies, award records and review quotes on this page are courtesy of Penguin Random House.