A review by kristidurbs
Wind/Pinball by Haruki Murakami

2.0

My first Murakami read and a strange one probably to start with. I've heard too many good things about Murakami for this to be my last read by him. These two novellas were his first, and (we're told) not at all like subsequent works. The first, Wind, hooked me early. The second, Pinball, lost me early. For the latter, all I can say is that the structure echoed its namesake: like a pinball machine, a ball ricocheting from side to side, we go back and forth between two storylines, and two women in the narrator's life, and both narrator and reader are left wondering, what was the point of the game at all?