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, Hard-boiled
Wonderland and the End of the World 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. The result is
a wildly inventive fantasy and a meditation on
the many uses of the mind.