Coin Locker Babies
by Ryu Murakami |
Snakes and Earrings
by Hitomi Kanehara | 
Hear the Wind Sing
by Haruki Murakami |
Wonderful Fool
by Shusaku Endo | 
Amrita
by Banana Yoshimoto | 
The Ark Sakura
by Kobo Abe | 
The Waiting Years
by Fumiko Enchi | 
The Lake
by Banana Yoshimoto | 
The Box Man
by Kobo Abe | 
Piercing
by Ryu Murakami |
Killing Commendatore
by Haruki Murakami |
Popular Hits of the Showa Era
by Ryu Murakami | 
Asleep
by Banana Yoshimoto | 
Kangaroo Notebook
by Kobo Abe | 
Patriotism
by Yukio Mishima | 
A Wild Sheep Chase
by Haruki Murakami | 
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami | 
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
by Haruki Murakami | 
Family Matters
by Rohinton Mistry | 
The Lowland
by Jhumpa Lahiri |
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.
