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Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Paperback · March 2, 1993
Reading lane: Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes a relentlessly inventive novel that dives deep into the very nature of consciousness. “Fantastical, mysterious, and funny . . . a fantasy world that might have been penned by Franz Kafka.”— The Philadelphia Inquirer Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect.
At a Glance
Why This Clicks
Mind Games, With Wit
Two parallel narratives make a playful, strange route into questions about consciousness and the mind.
Come here for
- A mind-bending collision of fantasy, mystery, and humor
- Big questions about the mind without losing the fun
Expect
- Two parallel narratives and a hyperkinetic pace
- A mix of the fantastical, the funny, and the serious
Book Details
- Authors
- Haruki Murakami
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- March 2, 1993
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic · Contemporary Fantasy
- Reading lane
- Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
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Publisher Categories
Contemporary Fantasy
Literary Fiction
Magical Realism
About This Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes a relentlessly inventive novel that dives deep into the very nature of consciousness. “Fantastical, mysterious, and funny . . . a fantasy world that might have been penned by Franz Kafka.”— The Philadelphia Inquirer Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist,...
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