Hear the Wind Sing (風の歌を聴け, Kaze no uta o kike) is the first novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.

[1] An omnibus English edition of Murakami's first two novels (Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973), under the title Wind/Pinball, with translations by Prof. Ted Goossen of York University, was released in the United States in August, 2015.

"[2][3] However, the title of the novel submitted to the Gunzo Literature Prize committee was "Happy Birthday and White Christmas".

On Apr 1 1978, the author suddenly had the ideas of a story while he was watching an NPB baseball game of Yakult Swallows at Meiji Jingu Stadium.

The story covers the craft of writing, the Japanese student movement, and, like later Murakami novels, relationships and loss.

During the summer vacation, he frequented J's bar with his friend "the Rat" and spent much time drinking beer obsessively.

She told him, "When I sit there alone, I can hear a lot of people coming to talk to me..." That night, at her apartment, she revealed she just had an abortion.