Series: A Wild Sheep Chase Archives

Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami, translated by Alfred Birnbaum

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Translation

Haruki Murakami’s lesser-known-in-the-West "Trilogy of the Rat" continues with the second prequel to his breakout international bestseller, A Wild Sheep Chase. Both Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973, were nominated for the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, considered by many to be Japan's top literary honor, and...

Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami, translated by Alfred Birnbaum

30 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Translation

In spite of my decades-long obsession with Haruki Murakami, some part of my literary brain was clearly disconnected because not until I read his popular running memoir, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, did I learn about his “Trilogy of the Rat,” which includes two...