书名：Wind Pinball 且听风吟 村上春树 1973年的弹子球

作者：Haruki Murakami

出版社名称：Vintage UK

出版时间：2017

语种：英语

ISBN：9780099590392

商品尺寸：12.9 x 19.8 x 2.1 cm

包装：平装

《听风吟》和《弹球》是村上春树最早的两部小说。他们跟随叙述者和他的朋友(人们只知道他的昵称“老鼠”)的命运。在《风儿唱》中，叙述者放暑假从大学回家。他花时间在J's酒吧和老鼠一起喝啤酒、抽烟、听收音机、思考写作和他睡过的女人，以及追求一个九指女孩的关系。

三年后，在1973年的弹球戏里，他搬到了东京，做翻译，和一对双胞胎女孩生活在一起，尽管他努力离开这个小镇和他的女朋友，但老鼠一直留在了日本。叙述者发现自己被自己命中注定的恋情的回忆所困扰，但更奇怪的是，他还被在J的酒吧里玩弹球的短暂沉迷所困扰。这让他开始寻找他多年前喜欢玩的弹球机的确切模型:三鳍飞船。

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.

1978年，29岁的村上春树(Haruki Murakami)在东京市中心经营一家爵士酒吧。四月的一天，他在看棒球比赛时，突然产生了写小说的冲动。他的第一部小说《听风吟》获得了一个新作家奖，并于次年出版。之后还有更多作品，包括《追羊记》、《残酷仙境》和《世界末日》，但只有1987年出版的《挪威的森林》，才让村上春树从一个作家变成了一个奇才。他的书成为畅销书，被翻译成多种语言，包括英语，村上独特而令人上瘾的虚构世界的大门也敞开了。

村上以令人钦佩的自律写作，每天写10页，之后他跑10公里(他从1982年开始长跑，参加了许多马拉松和赛跑)，从事翻译工作，然后阅读、听唱片和烹饪。他的激情为他的非小说作品增添了色彩，从我所说的奔跑到绝对的音乐，它们也渗透到他的小说和短篇故事中，在他无拘无束的想象探索中提供日常的时刻。在《奇鸟行状记》、《1Q84》和《没有女人的男人》等作品中，村上春树独特地将神秘与日常生活、忧郁与幽默融为一体，令读者为之着迷，也确保了村上春树作为世界上最受欢迎和喜爱的作家之一的地位。

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami's unique and addictive fictional universe.

Murakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running to Absolutely On Music, and they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of imaginative inquiry. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring Murakami's place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.