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

Haruki Murakami: The hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world (1992, Penguin) 4 stars

'A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls …

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.~