"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. The plot alternates between describing the life of narrator and that of his friend, The Rat."

Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami
Series: The Rat #2
Genres: Fiction

Also by this author: Hear the Wind Sing, A Wild Sheep Chase, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Norwegian Wood, Dance Dance Dance, South of the Border, West of the Sun, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Sputnik Sweetheart, Kafka on the Shore, After Dark, 1Q84, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, The Elephant Vanishes, After the Quake, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Men Without Women, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running