Description
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a novel by Haruki Murakami. It is a detective story, science fiction, and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one. It follows the descent of one man into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo.
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.
Review:
His fantasies, with their easy reference to western pulp fiction and music, retain a beauty of the mind Guardian A remarkable writer...he captures the common ache of contemporary heart and head -- Jay McInerney Combines a witty sci-fi pastiche and a dream-like Utopian fantasy in two separate narratives which alternate in an interweave of precognition and deja vu -- Richard Lloyd Parry Independent Here is abundant imagination at play Sunday Times Murakami's bold willingness to go straight-over-the-top has always been a signal indication of his genius...a powerful melange of disillusioned radicalism, keen intelligence, wicked sarcasm and a general allegiance to the surreal. If Murakami is the voice of a generation, as he is often proclaimed in Japan, then it is the generation of Thomas Pynchon and Don De Lillo Washington Post
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