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| hear the wind sing (風の歌を聴け Kaze no uta okike) |
First published in Japan by Kodansha (1979) Translated by Alfred Birnbaum Published in English in 1987 by Kodansha English Library (Japan)
| synopsis The first book in the "Trilogy of the Rat" series, it is followed by Hear the Wind Sing (1979) and A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) The writer recalls the days of his early twenties. The biology student passed his summer vacation aimlessly back at his home town. There are episodes about his childhood and his three girls whose names and faces have long been forgotten. Amid the bar scenes of cigarettes, french fries and beers, there was still extra space for his favourite author and the chunks of his philosophies. Hear the Wind Sing was never released in any English-speaking countries, but a translation was sold in Japan as a way to improve one's English reading skills, complete with a glossary in the back with the harder words defined in Japanese. This book also quite easy to obtain though eBay or the Japanese Amazon site reviews Wikipedia page on the novel librarything.com page on the novel The Portland Mercury review by John Motley cultural snow review by Tim Footman interesting review by Ted Mahsun Ben Peek review on livejournal.com Bookfox review by John Foxx Vox review from LittleGreenBookBrief description of the novel from archidose.org lost in translation review by Patrick McCoy Murakami Haruki: The Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture by Michael Seats - chapter on HTWS - except available from Google Book Search :
Memory, hybridity, and creative alliance in Haruki Murakami's fiction - an essay by Amy Ty Lai, which explores the use of animals in Haruki Murakami's fiction (inc HWTS)
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