
Hear the Wind Sing is Murakami's first novel available for the first time in English outside Japan In Hear the Wind Sing the narrator is home from college on his summer break He spends his time drinking beer & smoking in J's Bar with the Rat listening to the radio thinking about writing & the women he has slept with & pursuing a relationship with a girl with nine fingers The story of the narrator the Rat & J continues in Pinball 1973