Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Condition:Good Honest and compelling

Honest and compelling

Bill Murphy Jr

of ritual religion in a secular age

layered with rich detail and delivered in beautiful prose

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Condition:Good Honest and compellingA 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, 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