Murakami Haruki - Hallgasd a szél dalát! - Flipper 1973

The narrator of the two short novels was watching a baseball game at the Genghis Stadium in Tokyo in the afternoon of a cheerful day in April 1978, when, under the influence of the moment, he was determined to become a novelist. And so it came, the time had come to tell the story of a summer eight years earlier. His own story is about a 21-year-old, unnamed college boy, a friend named Rat, with whom he was brewing beer for western jazz music in J’s bar. And about Japanese student movements, stumbling blocks, losses, grievances. The girl who has given up on life, the girl who is special not only because she is missing a finger, but because when she is alone, she is voiced by different voices. Then about sex, sexual contemplation, Passions, pinball and replay.
Murakami’s two short novels already contain everything that is characteristic of mature works. From these two writings then unfolds the great adventure of the Sheep Chase, which proved convincingly to the author that in 1978 he was indeed born a novelist.