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      Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

      by Haruki Murakami
      Published
      Mar 1993
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      416
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      From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes a relentlessly inventive novel that dives deep into the very nature of consciousness.

      "Fantastical, mysterious, and funny . . . a fantasy world that might have been penned by Franz Kafka."—The Philadelphia Inquirer

      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 hyperkinetic novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.

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      General Fiction

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      Hard-Boiled Literary

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      First Edition Mar 1993 Vintage ISBN13 9780679743460 ISBN10 0679743464
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      Oct 2001 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099448785 ISBN10 0099448785
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