Both a gripping tale of adventure & a poetic meditation Antoine de Saint Exupery&s Wind Sand & Stars is the lyrical autobiography of an aviation pioneer from the author of The Little Prince This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated from the French with an introduction by William Rees In 1926 de Saint-Exupery began flying for the pioneering airline Latecoere
- later known as Aeropostale
- opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara & the Andes Wind Sand & Stars is drawn from this experience Interweaving encounters with nomadic Arabs & other adventures into a richly textured autobiographical narrative it has its climax in the extraordinary story of Saint-Exupery&s crash in the Libyan Desert in 1936 & his miraculous survival & Self-discovery comes when a man measures himself against an obstacle& writes Saint-Exupery This book explores the transcendent perceptions that arise when life is tested to its limits Writer & aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-44) was born in Lyon France His first two books Southern Mail & Night Flight are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the romance & discipline of flying Later works including Wind Sand & Stars & Flight to Arras stress his humanistic philosophy Saint-Exupery&s popular children&s book The Little Prince is also read by adults for its allegorical meaning Saint-Exupery&s plane disappeared during a mission in World War IIIf you enjoyed Wind Sand & Stars you might like Woody Guthrie&s Bound for Glory also available in Penguin Modern Classics&A Conrad of the air Like Conrad Saint-Exupery is a poet of action& Andre Maurois

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' If you're the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens at three o'clock in the morning you can only write accordingly That's who I am' Hear the Wind Sing & Pinball 1973 are Haruki Murakami's earliest novels They follow the fortunes of the narrator & his friend known only by his nickname the Rat 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 Three years later in Pinball 1973 he has moved to Tokyo to work as a translator & live with indistinguishable twin girls but the Rat has remained behind despite his efforts to leave both the town & his girlfriend The narrator finds himself haunted by memories of his own doomed relationship but also more bizarrely by his short-lived obsession with playing pinball in J's Bar This sends him on a quest to find the exact model of pinball machine he had enjoyed playing years earlier the three-flipper Spaceship ...

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