Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

ISBN-13:	9780679743460
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/02/1993
Series:	Vintage International
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	35,195
Product dimensions:	5.22(w) x 7.98(h) x 0.92(d)

Hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is Haruki Murakami’s deep dive into the very nature of consciousness.Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is a novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.