End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland
Haruki Murakami author Jay Rubin translator
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Publishing:5th Dec '24
£20.00
This title is due to be published on 5th December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A special hardback edition of Murakami's surreal, mind-bending masterpiece, in a new, unabridged translation from Jay Rubin.
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, The 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.
This edition is a newly unabridged translation from long-time Murakami collaborator, Jay Rubin.
'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 *
A remarkable writer...he captures the common ache of contemporary heart and head -- Jay McInerney
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 -- Richard Lloyd-Parry * Independent *
Here is abundant imagination at play * Sunday Times *
ISBN: 9781784878917
Dimensions: 224mm x 142mm x 40mm
Weight: 557g
464 pages