Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum
Readers rate it 4.0 (587 on Hardcover)
416 pages · Released Sep 28, 2001 · Vintage
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This is a challenging, surreal literary novel by Murakami intended for adult readers. The narrative is philosophically dense, exploring consciousness and reality through two parallel storylines that can be disorienting even for experienced readers. While not graphically violent or explicit, the book contains unsettling imagery, existential dread, and themes of alienation that require mature emotional and intellectual engagement.
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From the publisher
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... 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.
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- Fantasy fiction
- Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Fiction, fantasy, contemporary
- Tokyo (japan), fiction
- Roman
- Japanisch
- Ficción
- Consciousness
- Conciencia (Psicología)
- Fiction
- Fiction, fantasy, general
- Japan, fiction
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ISBN 9780099448785 · Vintage