| Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Contributor(s): Murakami, Haruki (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679743464 ISBN-13: 9780679743460 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1993 Annotation: Japan's most widely-read and controversial writer, author of A Wild Sheep Chase, hurtles into the consciousness of the West with this narrative about a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters--not to mention Bob Dylan and Lauren Bacall. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Fantasy - Contemporary - Fiction | Magical Realism |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92056345 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.70 lbs) 416 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is Haruki Murakami's deep dive into the very nature of consciousness. 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 hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind. |