HARD BOILED WONDERLAND (VINTAGE CLASSICS) (PB)

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World tracks 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. 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. A sci-fi pastiche and a Utopian fantasy novel ingeniously woven together.