Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami

 This is a very short book, and I can see why Murakami didn't want his first two books translated into English, as, besides short, they are also not very structured and the plot is all over the place.  This book is even shorter than Pinball, 1973 and it doesn't have to do much with wind, except one random conversation.  The book happens while the unnamed narrator is back for a summer holiday from Tokyo at his seaside town.

Here he drinks at J's bar with "The Rat" who is from a rich family, older than the narrator and apparently has a fixation on an older woman.  The narrator remembers the three women he has slept with and the last of them committed a suicide, although nobody knows why.  He also finds a passed out woman in J's bar bathroom (seems bathrooms in Japan are unisex, who would have thunk it?).  He takes her home and notices she is missing the pinky finger on her left hand.  She strips naked while drunk and the narrator stays in her apartment to keep her from harming herself.  When she wakes up she accuses him of having sex with her while she was passed out and throws him out.

Eventually he finds her as a clerk in a record shop by the shore and they start seeing each other until one night she disappears and when he sees her again she told him she had an abortion.  He never sees her again after that night. 

The Rat wants to write novels, but he says he will not put sex or fights in his novels.  The narrator doesn't understand why not to include sex and fights when those are some of the most important events in human's lives.  

The narrator eventually moves to Tokyo permanently and gets married, while The Rat writes novels and sends him a manuscript each Christmas.