Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of..., Haruki Murakami
Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of..., Haruki Murakami
12 Rating(s)
List: $41.00 | Sale: $28.70
Club: $20.50

Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Author: Haruki Murakami

Narrator: Adam Sims, andIan Porter

Unabridged: 14 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 03/29/2010


Synopsis

Information is everything in Hard-boiled Wonderland. A specialist encrypter is attacked by thugs with orders from an unknown source, is chased by invisible predators, and dates an insatiably hungry librarian who never puts on weight. In the End of the World a new arrival is learning his role as dream-reader. But there is something eerily disquieting about the changeless nature of the town and its fable-like inhabitants. Told in alternate chapters, the two stories converge and combine to create a novel that is surreal, beautiful, thrilling and extraordinary.

Author Bio

Born in Kobe in 1949, Haruki Murakami studied Greek drama before managing a jazz bar in Tokyo from 1974 to 1981. His third novel, A Wild Sheep Chase, earned the Noma Literary Award for New Writers and ended his career at the jazz bar. His next novel, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, won the prestigious Tanizaki Prize. In 1996, Murakami received the Yomiuri Literary Award for Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. In addition to being a prolific writer of novels and short stories, he is also known as a skillful translator of Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, John Irving, Paul Theroux, and other American contemporary authors. His work has been translated into thirty-eight languages, and he has taught at Princeton and Tufts Universities.

Reviews