Hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is
Haruki Murakami s deep dive into the very nature of consciousness.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 novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious
meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.
