The Rat Series by Haruki Murakami

3.79 · 202 ratings
  • Hear the Wind Sing (The Rat #1)
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    Hear the Wind Sing (The Rat #1)

    Haruki Murakami

    Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings · published 1979

    Hear the Wind Sing is the first novel by Haruki Murakami; it first appeared in the June 1979 issue of Gunzo, one of the most influential literary magazines in Japan.There’s not a whole lot to say story wise. A young man drinks a lot of beer and has strange conversations with a mysterious young lady he just met. So, classic Murakami.

  • Pinball 1973 (The Rat #2)
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    Pinball 1973 (The Rat #2)

    Haruki Murakami

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings · published 1980

    The plot centers on the narrator's brief but intense obsession with pinball, his life as a freelance translator, and his later efforts to reunite with the old pinball machine that he used to play. He describes living with a pair of identical unnamed female twins, who mysteriously appear in his apartment one morning, and disappear at the end of the book. Interspersed with the narrative are his memories of the Japanese student movement, and of his old girlfriend Naoko... more

  • Wind/Pinball: Two Novels (The Rat #1-2)
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    Wind/Pinball: Two Novels (The Rat #1-2)

    Haruki Murakami

    Rated: 3.54 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings · published 1990

    The debut short novels--nearly thirty years out of print-- by the internationally acclaimed writer, newly retranslated and in one English-language volume for the first time, with a new introduction by the author.These first major works of fiction by Haruki Murakami center on two young men--an unnamed narrator and his friend and former roommate, the Rat... more

  • Wilde Schafsjagd (The Rat #3)
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    Wilde Schafsjagd (The Rat #3)

    Haruki Murakami

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings · published 1982

    His life was like a recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, an ovine-obsessed professor and a manic-depressive in a sheep outfit, implicate them in a hunt for a sheep, that may or may not be running the world, and the upshot is another singular masterpiece from Japan's finest novelist.

  • Dance Dance Dance (The Rat #4)
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    Dance Dance Dance (The Rat #4)

    Haruki Murakami

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings · published 1988

    In this propulsive novel by the author of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and The Elephant Vanishes, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard-boiled thriller and white-hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table... more

  • A Wild Sheep Chase / Dance Dance Dance (The Rat #3-4)
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    A Wild Sheep Chase / Dance Dance Dance (The Rat #3-4)

    Haruki Murakami

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2006

    "A Wild Sheep Chase" - His life was like his recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn... more

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