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Contents

Preface

1. Pinball, 1973 and Hear the Wind Sing

The Making of a “Bohemian” Translator

Escapes

The Waseda Years

Becoming a Translator

Birnbaum Discovers Murakami

The “Immature” Novellas

Europe Calling

2. A Wild Sheep Chase

Elmer Luke “Starts the Engine”

Kyoto to New York (By Way of Cambridge, New Mexico, and Philadelphia)

Back to Japan

Luke Discovers Murakami

Updating Sheep

Of Sheep and Men

Of Copy and Capital

The Murakamis Go to New York

Without a Kimono in Sight

The U.K. Calling

Becoming a “New Yorker Author”

The Wind-Up Bird and The New Yorker’s Women

3. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

The Murakamis Go to Princeton

Which Book Second?

Side by Side

Imaginary Beings

For That Was His Name

The Pink Girl Vanishes

Alternate Worlds

A Sophomoric Funk

4. The Elephant Vanishes and Dance Dance Dance

The Making of a “Meticulous” Translator

Rubin Discovers Murakami

“Lively” Versus “Faithful”

Fiction Over There

In Search of a New Publisher

Murakami Meets Mehta

In Search of an Agent

Joining the “Carver Gang”

Murakami Meets Fisketjon

“Lite” Versus “Literary”

A Selection of Selections

Chip Kidd, Optic Translator

The “Winter Years”

Birnbaum and Luke’s Last Dance

The Beginnings of a Backlist

5. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Becoming a “New Yorker Author” 2

A Changing of the Guard

The Long Goodbye

The Windup to the Publication of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

A “Salable” Book

A Most Elegant Object

Great Expectations

To the U.K. and Beyond

Acknowledgments

Notes

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