<p>Murakami has dismissed the book as juvenalia, but that probably won't dissuade fans from reading it. He wrote it in 1980, and now copies are sold on Amazon for about $400. Click the link below to get the 79-page PDF. Thanks to <a href="http://www.themillionsblog.com/" target="_blank">The Millions</a> for this one.</p> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070203122316/http://cramoisi.net/folder/bibliotheque/pinball1973.pdf">Haruki Murakami: <em>Pinball, 1973</em></a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> writing haruki murakami pinball 1973 japanese literature novel wind-up bird multimedia 1 2008-06-10T09:23:50-04:00 <p>Known for books like <em>Norwegian Wood</em>, <em>The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle</em>, and <em>Kafka on the Shore</em>, Haruki Murakami is probably the most widely-read Japanese writer in the world right now. His first book, <em>Pinball, 1973</em>, is out of print in English, however. You can have it here for free.</p> 7 842 haruki-murakami-would-prefer-you-didn-t-read-this 2008-06-10T09:29:51-04:00 true false true false false #<Image:0x2b3a3455d450> 2008-09-17T04:16:45-04:00 12 327