About the book: year / “There is no such thing as an ideal text. Just as there is no ideal despair.” This was told to me by a writer whom I met by chance as a student. What this actually means, I realized much later - and then it was quite a consolation. There are no ideal texts - that's all... But in April 1978, at a baseball match between Japan and the USA, Haruki Murakami realized for the first time that he could write an ideal novel. Thus was born the book that marked the beginning of the cult “Rat Trilogy” - the novel “Listen to the Song of the Wind”".