Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Haruki Murakami author Jay Rubin translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Publishing:3rd Jul '25

£9.99

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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World cover

Murakami's surreal, mind-bending masterpiece: a sci-fi pastiche and a Utopian fantasy novel ingeniously woven together.

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, post-modern manifesto. All this rolled into one rip-roaring novel, End of the World and Hard-boiled Wonderland 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.

‘A remarkable writer...he captures the common ache of contemporary heart and head’ Jay McInerney

‘His fantasies, with their easy reference to western pulp fiction and music, retain a beauty of the mind’ Guardian

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

His fantasies, with their easy reference to western pulp fiction and music, retain a beauty of the mind * Guardian *
A remarkable writer...he captures the common ache of contemporary heart and head
Combines a witty sci-fi pastiche and a dream-like Utopian fantasy in two separate narratives which alternate in an interweave of precognition and deja vu * Independent *
Here is abundant imagination at play * Sunday Times *
Murakami's bold willingness to go straight-over-the-top has always been a signal indication of his genius...a powerful melange of disillusioned radicalism, keen intelligence, wicked sarcasm and a general allegiance to the surreal. If Murakami is the "voice of a generation," as he is often proclaimed in Japan, then it is the generation of Thomas Pynchon and Don De Lillo * Washington Post *
He has become the foremost representative of the new style of Japanese writing: hip, cynical, highly stylized, set at the juncture of cyberpunk, postmodernism and hard-boiled detective fiction... Murakami is adept at outrageous wit, outrageous style. * Los Angeles Times *

ISBN: 9781529957754

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm

Weight: 500g

496 pages