Hear the Wind Sing

Hear the Wind Sing

infobox Book |
name = Hear the Wind Sing
title_orig = 風の歌を聴け
Kaze no uta o kike
translator = Alfred Birnbaum


image_caption = cover of English edition
author = Haruki Murakami
cover_artist =
country = Japan
language = Japanese
genre = Surreal novel
publisher = Kodansha International
pub_date = July 1979
english_pub_date = February 1987
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 165 pp (US)
201 pp (JP)
isbn = ISBN 4-06-186026-7 (US 1st edition)
ISBN 4-06-116367-1 (JP 1st edition)
followed_by = Pinball, 1973

Nihongo|"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.

Themes

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 Japanese literary magazines such as "Gunzo", the title was "Happy Birthday, and White Christmas". The story takes place in 1970 over a period of nineteen days between August 8 and August 28, and is narrated by a twenty-one year old unnamed man. The story contains forty small chapters amounting to 130-pages. The story covers the craft of writing, the Japanese student movement, and, like later Murakami novels, relationships and loss. Like later novels, cooking, eating and drinking, and listening to western music are regularly described. The narrator's close friend 'the Rat', around whom the trilogy of the Rat evolves, is a student and bar patron who expresses a general alienation towards society. The narrator describes the fictional American writer Derek Heartfield as a primary influence, citing his pulp science fiction works, and quoting him at several points.

Awards

* Gunzo Literature Prize [ [http://moodle.kyoto-su.ac.jp/wiki/index.php/Murakami_Haruki Kyoto Sangyo University wiki] ]

References

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