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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldġ.

Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. The first Murakami novel I read, 1Q 84, also had an alternate reality. It one of those novels that requires some time to process all the It has an underlying complexity, which makes fantasy) but eventually it allīegins to makes some sense. This is a well written novel teeming with ideas and styles that seem incongruent at first (crime novel vs. Japanese equivalent of the Pulitzer) for Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Murakami won the Tanizaki Literary prize (the He can't help but wonder about his disconnect to his emotions and memory His job is to read dreams found in unicorn skulls in the library, but

He has been separated from his shadow which is not allowed in the city. The alternate chapters feature a dreamreader who is living in a walled city surrounded by grazing unicorns. These chaptersįeature references to whiskey, pop-culture, old American movies, music,Īs well as lots of astute comments and nimble wordplay. Mention the competing info organization, the Semiotecs. Underground where he has to hide from the carnivorous INKlings, not to He'sīeen hired to do a top secret job for a professor whose lab is

One part is set in Tokyo sometime in the future where the narrator is aĬalcutec, who works for The System. Eventually the two alternating universes connect.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World follows two stories, told in altering chapters which are seemingly alternate universes. It is an elaborate post-modern novel that is part cyberpunk science fiction and part film noir crime novel. Kirkus Reviews calls it an elegiac allegory, which barely touches on it's attributes. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, translated by Alfred T.