Could anyone tell me the plot from Haruki Murakami's Hear the wind sing?

Answer 1

In Hear the Wind Sing, the protagonist (conventionally referred to in jun-bungaku as “Boku”), is a twenty-one-year-old biology major who has come home from college. After drinking at a local bar with an older friend known as “The Rat,” Boku eventually realizes that he wants to write fiction. Although Boku and the Rat never encounter each other in the narrative, they both appear in Murakami's next novel, Pinball, 1973, set during the autumn months of 1973. The novel focuses on Boku as he confronts the world of his memory by generating a compendium of early 1970s pop trivia.

Answer 2

An older writer recalls the days of his youth, people who are dead, girls (from a boys point of view), and Murakami's mysterious sentences lay the memories in your hands like hot embers on a cold day; you want the warmth, and the color is so pretty, but the possibility of a burn is always part of the experience.

Added edit: In Japanese, Boku means "me", or "I". Jun-bungaku is the study of literature, and can refer to criticism, i.e. the interpretation of great literature, or to the practitioners of criticism, especially university professors.

With the use of the youthful "Boku" Murakami is focusing subtly on the technique of autobiography. His prose is often that of an older man, or his descriptions those of memory, not current narrative.

Answer 3

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Good luck.

Kevin, Liverpool, England.