Hear the Wind Sing is Murakami's first novel, available for the first time in English outside Japan. In Hear the Wind Sing the narrator is home from college on his summer break. He spends his time drinking beer and smoking in Jâe(tm)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. The story of the narrator, the Rat and J continues in Pinball, 1973.
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Tato série se noří do hlubin osamělosti, posedlosti a citlivosti mladých mužů, kteří se ocitají na prahu dospělosti. S nezaměnitelným surrealistickým nádechem proplétá realitu s fantazií, nabízí jedinečný pohled na vnitřní svět postav. Čtenáři se mohou těšit na melancholické, přesto poutavé příběhy, které prozkoumávají složité mezilidské vztahy a hledání smyslu v moderním světě.
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Pinball, 1973 is Murakami's second novel, available for the first time in English outside Japan. With a new introduction by the author. Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakamiâe(tm)s earliest novels. They follow the fortunes of the narrator and his friend, known only by his nickname, the Rat. Pinball, 1973 picks up three years after the events of Hear the Wind Sing. The narrator 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 Jâe(tm)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.
Hon na ovci
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Hlavní hrdina románu žije poklidně v Tokiu a spoluvlastní malou reklamní agenturu. Život mu pomalu míjí pod rukama a on toho od něj už ani moc nečeká. Stačí však, aby jejich firma otiskla v reklamním letáku nevinnou fotografii krajinky s ovcemi a hrdina se ocitá na nechtěné iniciační pouti kamsi do „srdce temnoty“ současného Japonska… Nečekaně ho vyhledá jistá organizace a on pod pohrůžkou násilí putuje nedobrovolně na ostrov Hokkaidó, aby tam za každou cenu našel tajemnou ovci s hvězdou na hřbetě…
Tancuj, tancuj, tancuj
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Hrdina příběhu se vrací na nejsevernější ostrov Hokkaidó, kde před lety zažil napínavé chvíle při hledání tajemné ovce. Zároveň tam přišel o svou přítelkyni, která beze stopy zmizela z Hotelu U Delfína. Rozhodne se, že ji musí najít. Na místě starého, zpustlého hotýlku však stojí moderní, komfortní budova. Po zaměstnancích není ani stopy – jen uvnitř stále přebývá Ovčí mužík. Volné pokračování Murakamiho bestselleru Hon na ovci neodložíte ani na chvíli.
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Centering around two young men--an unnamed narrator and his friend and former roommate, the Rat--these short works are powerful, at times surreal, stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism.
Murakami Omnibus: A Wild Sheep Chase / Dance Dance Dance
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"A Wild Sheep Chase" - His life was like his recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, an ovine-obsessed professor and a manic-depressive in a sheep outfit, implicate them in a hunt for a sheep, that may or may not be running the world, and the upshot is another singular masterpiece from Haruki Murakami. "Dance Dance Dance" - High-class call girls billed to Mastercard; a psychic thirteen-year-old drop-out with a passion for Talking Heads; a hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers; a one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem; combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes "Dance Dance Dance". It is an assault on the senses, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting from the window of a sports car.