Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world
Murakami, Haruki, 1949-2003
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The contemporary and the mythic collide in this hard-boiled tale of computers and conspiracy theories, unicorns and ancient lands. 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.
Main title:
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum.
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Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2003.
Collation:
400 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Notes:
This translation originally published: Tokyo: Kodansha, 1991; London: Hamish Hamilton, 1991.
ISBN:
9780099448785 (pbk)
Dewey class:
895.635
LC class:
PL880
Language:
EnglishJapanese
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BRN:
218096