1973年，“我”已从大学毕业，与朋友共同经营一间小型的翻译事务所，过上了安稳的生活。但大学时代的残影，尤其是对直子的爱和她已死的事实，依然折磨着“我”的内心。三年前，“我”为了消磨痛苦的时光，曾经在游乐场沉迷过一台“三把式太空船”型号的弹珠玩具机，半年后她消失了，谁也不知道她的去向，我从那时起不再打弹珠玩具。可是如今，我又感觉到她仿佛在某个地方呼唤我。于是我丢下工作，开始寻找那台消失的弹珠玩具机，与青春做一场“漫长的告别”。

　　作者简介

　　村上春树

　　日本著名作家、翻译家。

　　1949年出生于京都市。毕业于早稻田大学第一文学部。1979年凭借首作《听风的歌》获得群像新人文学奖。主要长篇小说有《寻羊冒险记》（野间文艺新人奖)、《世界末日与冷酷异境》(谷崎润一郎奖)、《挪威的森林》、《国境之南、太阳之西》、《发条鸟年代记》(读卖文学奖)、《海边的卡夫卡》(世界幻想文学大奖、《纽约时报》2005年度好书Top 10)、《1Q84》(每日出版文化奖)、《刺杀骑士团长》等。短篇小说集有《遇见100%的女孩》《神的孩子都在跳舞》《东京奇谭集》《没有女人的男人们》等。随笔集有《村上收音机》、“村上朝日堂”系列、《爵士群像》等。游记有《远方的鼓声》《雨天炎天》《边境·近境》等。翻译过卡佛、塞林格、卡波蒂、菲茨杰拉德、麦卡勒斯等多位英美著名文学作家的作品。获得众多国际文学大奖，包括2006年弗朗茨·卡夫卡奖、弗兰克·奥康纳国际短篇小说奖，2009年耶路撒冷奖、西班牙艺术文学勋章，2011年加泰罗尼亚国际奖，2014年世界文学奖，2016年安徒生文学奖，2022年奇诺·德尔·杜卡世界奖等。

　　译者介绍

　　赖明珠

　　1947年生于台湾苗栗，中兴大学农经系毕业，日本千叶大学深造。回台湾从事广告企划撰文，喜欢文学、艺术、电影欣赏及旅行，并选择性翻译日文作品，包括村上春树的多本著作。

By 1973, "I" had graduated from college and was living a stable life by running a small translation office with a friend. But the remnants of my college years, especially the love for Naoko and the fact that she is dead, still gnaze at the heart of "me." Three years ago, "I" in order to kill the painful time, once in the playground addicted to a "three-hand spaceship" model of pinball toy machine, half a year later she disappeared, no one knows her whereabouts, I no longer play pinball toys from then on. But now I feel as if she is calling me from somewhere. So I left my job and began to look for the missing pinball toy machine to make a "long goodbye" to youth.

About the author

Haruki Murakami

Famous Japanese writer and translator.

Born in Kyoto City in 1949. He graduated from the First Department of Literature, Waseda University. In 1979, he won the Group New Literary Prize for his first work, Songs of Listening to the Wind. His main novels are "The Adventure in Search of Sheep" (Noma Literary Newcomer Award), "The End of the World and the Grim Land" (Tanizaki Junichiro Award), "Norwegian Wood", "South of the Border, West of the Sun", "The Winework Bird" (Yomiuri Literature Award), "Kafka by the Sea" (World Fantasy Literature Award, the New York Times 2005 Book of the Year Top 10), "1Q84" (Daily Publishing Culture Award), "Assassinate Knight Commander" and so on. His short story collections include "Meet 100% Girls", "God's Children Are Dancing", "Tokyo Wonderland" and "Men Without Women". The collection of essays includes "Murakami Radio", "Murakami Asahi Do" series, "Jazz Group Portrait" and so on. Travel notes have "distant drum", "Rainy day", "Border · Near" and so on. He has translated the works of many famous British and American literary writers such as Carver, Salinger, Capotti, Fitzgerald and McCullers. He has received numerous international literary awards, including the 2006 Franz Kafka Prize, the Frank O 'Connor International Short Story Prize, the 2009 Jerusalem Prize, the Spanish Order of Arts and Letters, the 2011 Catalonia International Prize, the 2014 World Prize for Literature, the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Prize for Literature, and the 2022 Chino del Duca World Prize.

Translator's introduction

Lai Mingzhu

Born in Miaoli, Taiwan in 1947, he graduated from the Department of Agricultural Economics of Chung Hsing University and further studied in Chiba University, Japan. He returned to Taiwan to work as an advertising writer, enjoys literature, art, film appreciation and travel, and selectively translates Japanese works, including many books by Haruki Murakami.