Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

1 About this book

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 novel that is at once a hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind. This unabridged edition uses the original Japanese title of the book, which was later inverted for foreign publications.

Good for readers who want: fantasy and a long read.

• Fantasy
• Fantasy, contemporary
• Tokyo (japan)
• Japan
• Near and far eastern fiction
• Consciousness