Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel

Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel

村上春樹 • Vintage Books

ISBN-10: 0679743464 · ISBN-13: 978‑0679743460 · 1993

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Dimensions: 8 × 5.2 × 0.9 in

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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. What emerges is a hyperkinetic novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.

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