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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes a relentlessly inventive novel that dives deep into the very nature of consciousness. “Fantastical, mysterious, and funny . . . a fantasy world that might have been penned by Franz Kafka.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer 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 hyperkinetic novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.
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Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world, Haruki Murakami
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- Released
- 1993
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Haruki Murakami
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Released
- 1993
- ISBN10
- 0307777693
- ISBN13
- 9780307777690
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Love, Contemporary Fiction, Gifts for men, Japan, Japanese Literature, Magical Realism, Future, Soul, Treasures, Utopia, Tokyo, Parallel Worlds, Shadow, Sci-Fi Short Stories
- First published
- 1985
- Original title
- Sekai no owari to hádoboirudo wandárando
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes a relentlessly inventive novel that dives deep into the very nature of consciousness. “Fantastical, mysterious, and funny . . . a fantasy world that might have been penned by Franz Kafka.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer 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 hyperkinetic novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.