Hear the Wind Sing

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Hear the Wind Sing is Haruki Murakami’s debut novella, a surreal, introspective coming-of-age story that introduces themes and characters that recur throughout his later works.

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instanceOf literaryWork
novella
approximateLength short
author Haruki Murakami NERFINISHED
centralTheme alienation
coming of age
loss
memory
nostalgia
search for identity
countryOfOrigin Japan
EnglishTitle Hear the Wind Sing NERFINISHED
firstPublishedIn 1979
followedBy Pinball, 1973 NERFINISHED
genre coming-of-age fiction
contemporary Japanese literature
postmodern literature
surreal fiction
hasEnglishTranslation yes
hasForm book
literaryMovement late 20th-century Japanese literature
literaryStyle introspective narration
minimalist prose
surreal elements
mainCharacter the Rat NERFINISHED
unnamed narrator
mediaType print
motif American pop culture
bars
drinking
music
radio
narrativePointOfView first-person
notableFor Haruki Murakami’s debut work
establishing themes of Murakami’s later fiction
introduction of recurring Murakami characters
originalLanguage Japanese
originalTitle 風の歌を聴け NERFINISHED
partOf Murakami early works
precededBy none
publicationYear 1979
publisher Kodansha NERFINISHED
recurringCharacterIntroduced J NERFINISHED
the Rat NERFINISHED
series Trilogy of the Rat NERFINISHED
settingCountry Japan NERFINISHED
settingLocation Kobe NERFINISHED
targetAudience adult readers

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Haruki Murakami wrote Hear the Wind Sing