Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Murakami, Haruki & Alfred Birnbaum - 1991

E-189: Kodansha Amer Inc. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. Uncorrected Proof; First Printing. Paperback. Trade Paperback. 8vo. Kodansha International, Tokyo, Japan. 1991. 400 pgs. Uncorrected Proof. Issued in green wrappers with black titltes present to the front wrapper. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Author's fourth novel, winner of a 1985 Tanizaki Prize. 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. E-189; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 416 pages .