"There is no such thing as perfect text. How there is no perfect despair." This was told to me by a writer whom I accidentally met as a student. What this actually means, I realized much later - and then it was a good consolation. There are no perfect texts - that's all... But in April 1978, at a Japan-USA baseball game, Haruki Murakami first realized that he could write the perfect novel. So the book was born, which laid the foundation for the cult "Trilogy of the Rat" - the novel "Listen to the song of the wind."