Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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Haruki Murakami: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (2011, Penguin Random House)

416 pages

English language

Published May 11, 2011 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-4481-0368-3
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My vote for best Murakami novel, though not as well known as his other books.

The book that made me fall in love with Murakami's imagination. Surreal encounters, a parallel dimension... Though the rest of his work never quite achieves the same harmonics, I continue to read him hoping for another visit to the end of the world.

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Jorm gave me a copy as a gift. Definitely grittier and more down-to-earth than The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, as befits a book with "Hard-Boiled" in the title. The premise was interesting, and I liked the structure of the book, but I didn't find myself empathizing with the characters.