Download or read book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World written by Haruki Murakami and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.