Hear the Wind Sing (風の歌を聴け, Kaze no uta o kike) is the first novel by Japanese author, Haruki Murakami; it first appeared in the June 1979 issue of Gunzo, one of the most influential literary magazines in Japan. It is the first book in the "Trilogy of the Rat" series, which is followed by Pinball, 1973 (1980) and A Wild Sheep Chase (1982). An English translation by Alfred Birnbaum appeared in 1987. All three books in the Trilogy of the Rat have b...
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Hear the Wind Sing (風の歌を聴け, Kaze no uta o kike) is the first novel by Japanese author, Haruki Murakami; it first appeared in the June 1979 issue of Gunzo, one of the most influential literary magazines in Japan. It is the first book in the "Trilogy of the Rat" series, which is followed by Pinball, 1973 (1980) and A Wild Sheep Chase (1982). An English translation by Alfred Birnbaum appeared in 1987. All three books in the Trilogy of the Rat have been translated into English, but Hear The Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973, the first two books in the trilogy, were never widely distributed in the English-speaking world, having only been published in Japan by Kodansha under their Kodansha English Library branding, and both only as A6-sized pocketbooks.
The author thought of the images of the story while watching the Tokyo Yakult Swallows at Meiji Jingu Stadium; he wrote it an hour at a time every night for four months; this became his first novel. When he submitted it for the first time to...
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