The hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world

by Haruki Murakami

416 pages

English language

Published July 29, 1992 by Penguin.

ISBN:: 978-0-14-015435-1
OCLC Number:: 60009350

(11 reviews)

'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.'

18 editions

jonn reviewed The hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world by Haruki Murakami (Penguin International Writers Series)

Genius literature with sexist tones, written by a sexist.

3 stars

Murakami is an actual sexist, it's not just his characters.

~Seriously, there are 5 star books and then there's this. This is so much more than just a book, absolutely amazing. There's story, there's haiku level playful observations, there's a whole word... Or two.~