Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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author: Haruki Murakami / Alfred Birnbaum
book format: Paperback
publishing house: Vintage International
publication date: 2015 -8
language: English
binding: Paperback
number of pages: 401

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In this hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive novel, Japan’s most popular (and controversial) fiction writer hurtles into the consciousness of the West. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World draws readers into a narrative particle accelerator in which a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is simultaneously cooler than zero and unaffectedly affecting, a hilariously funny and deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.

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