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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099448785

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 287g

  • RRP: £9.99

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following.

Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, Murakami unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099448785

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 287g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • His fantasies, with their easy reference to western pulp fiction and music, retain a beauty of the mind

    Guardian

  • A remarkable writer...he captures the common ache of contemporary heart and head

    Jay McInerney

  • Combines a witty sci-fi pastiche and a dream-like Utopian fantasy in two separate narratives which alternate in an interweave of precognition and deja vu

    Richard Lloyd Parry, Independent

  • Here is abundant imagination at play

    Sunday Times

  • Murakami's bold willingness to go straight-over-the-top has always been a signal indication of his genius...a powerful melange of disillusioned radicalism, keen intelligence, wicked sarcasm and a general allegiance to the surreal. If Murakami is the "voice of a generation," as he is often proclaimed in Japan, then it is the generation of Thomas Pynchon and Don De Lillo

    Washington Post

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About the Author

Haruki Murakami

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

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