# Pinball, 1973

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami/pinball-1973/9781529981049

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- Book: [Pinball, 1973](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami/pinball-1973) ([Pinball, 1973.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami/pinball-1973.md))
- Authors: [Haruki Murakami](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Translated by: Ted Goossen
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-15-2998-104-9
- Published: 2026-07-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A nostalgic, jazz-soaked love-letter to a youth spent in pursuit of simple pleasures, from the Japan's most celebrated contemporary storyteller, Haruki Murakami Haunted by memories of a doomed love affair, and living in something of a strange hiatus in Tokyo, Pinball, 1973 's narrator finds himself dreaming of the days he used to wile away playing pinball in J's Bar. Until one day he embarks on a quest: to find the exact model of pinball machine he played years earlier - the infamous three-flipper Spaceship. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days