A review by mbahnaf
Hear the Wind Sing, by Haruki Murakami
4.0
“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s like musical chairs.”
A little rough around the edges, and heavily influenced by Kerouac(i.e. On the Road), Hear the Wind Sing is Murakami's first ever novel. The novel tells the story from the perspective of an unnamed narrator as he writes down the events of the summer vacation of 1970 that he spent at his hometown on the seaside. The story introduces some of the most notable Murakami characters, like Rat and J, and introduces the setting of the J's bar which makes multiple appearances in the his writing. The book is the first part of the Rat series.
A little rough around the edges, and heavily influenced by Kerouac(i.e. On the Road), Hear the Wind Sing is Murakami's first ever novel. The novel tells the story from the perspective of an unnamed narrator as he writes down the events of the summer vacation of 1970 that he spent at his hometown on the seaside. The story introduces some of the most notable Murakami characters, like Rat and J, and introduces the setting of the J's bar which makes multiple appearances in the his writing. The book is the first part of the Rat series.