NMLP P-011278 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

Haruki Murakami · Alfred A. Knopf (US) / Harvill Secker (UK) · 2015

First widely distributed English edition of Murakami's first two novels, issued in new Goossen translations. Earlier Alfred Birnbaum English translations existed only as Kodansha English Library pocketbooks sold in Japan. US Knopf and UK Harvill Secker both appeared in August 2015, effectively simultaneous, with a near-simultaneous Canadian Bond Street Books printing. Japanese originals 1979/1980.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-011278 for "Wind/Pinball: Two Novels" by Haruki Murakami (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-011278, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).