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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International)

by Haruki Murakami

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Bibliographic Details

  • Format: Paperback
  • Book condition: VG/Fine
  • Binding: Paperback
  • ISBN 10: 0679743464
  • ISBN 13: 9780679743460
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Date published: 1993
  • Size: 5.25 x 8.25 x 1 inches
  • Weight: 0.8 pounds

Book Description

Vintage. Paperback. VG/Fine. First Vintage International Edition, March 1993 - Murakami's lightning prose more than sustains the elaborate plot of this thriller, set in a Tokyo of the near future. 1993 The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects' heads with electrodes that decipher coded messages is the unnamed narrator of this excellent by Murakami, one of Japan's best-selling novelists and winner of the prestigious Tanizaki prize.


Book summary

Murakami's postmodern venture into science-fiction territory won the Tanizaki Prize, Japan's equivalent of the Pulitzer. In a near-future Japan, the nameless protagonist is a man who has had his brain surgically altered by his employer, the Calcutecs, to encrypt data in a special way. The new client requesting his services turns out to be the extremely eccentric scientist who invented the operation. Suddenly, the protagonist becomes central to a battle among the Calcutecs; their rivals, the Semiotecs; and miscellaneous independent operators intent on gaining control of the scientist's research and getting their hands on a gift given to the protagonist by the scientist: a unicorn skull. This science-fictional story is interleaved with what seems to be a fantasy narrative, in which a nameless protagonist comes to stay in a walled Town where unicorns live and people's shadows have an independent, but weak, existence. This protagonist is assigned the job of "reading dreams"--i.e., picking up psychic impressions--from skulls, and spends his spare time puzzling out what the Town is, how he got there, and how to leave.

Publisher Notes


Japan's most widely-read and controversial writer, author of A Wild Sheep Chase, hurtles into the consciousness of the West with this narrative about a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters--not to mention Bob Dylan and Lauren Bacall.



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