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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- Author
- Haruki Murakami
- Narrator
- Kirby Heyborne
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 26 June 2025
- Run Time
- 14 hours 24 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
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Murakami's surreal, mind-bending masterpiece: a sci-fi pastiche and a Utopian fantasy novel ingeniously woven together.
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, post-modern manifesto. All this rolled into one rip-roaring novel, End of the World and Hard-boiled Wonderland 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.
'Here is abundant imagination at play.' Sunday Times
‘A remarkable writer...he captures the common ache of contemporary heart and head’ Jay McInerney
‘His fantasies, with their easy reference to western pulp fiction and music, retain a beauty of the mind’ Guardian
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
© Haruki Murakami 2001 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
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Details
- Author
- Haruki Murakami
- Narrator
- Kirby Heyborne
- Duration
- 14 hours 24 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 June 2025
- ISBN
- 9781529968484
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Magical realism, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Science fiction: cyberpunk / biopunk, Crime and / or mystery fiction, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Fiction in translation
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.Murakami's surreal, mind-bending masterpiece: a sci-fi pastiche and a Utopian fantasy novel ingeniously woven together.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, post-modern manifesto. All this rolled into one rip-roaring novel, End of the World and Hard-boiled Wonderland 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.'Here is abundant imagination at play.' Sunday Times‘A remarkable writer...he captures the common ache of contemporary heart and head’ Jay McInerney‘His fantasies, with their easy reference to western pulp fiction and music, retain a beauty of the mind’ GuardianWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR© Haruki Murakami 2001 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
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