Full name: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel

Author: Haruki Murakami Year: 1985 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Science fiction Culture: Japan Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780679743460 0679743464

'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.' Similar books: Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami After Dark by Haruki Murakami South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima Paprika by Yasutaka Tsutsui Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima The Box Man by Kobo Abe NP by Banana Yoshimoto The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami Darkness in Summer by Takeshi Kaiko After the Quake by Haruki Murakami Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas BioShock: Rapture by John Shirley Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris