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End of the world and hard-boiled wonderland

Call Number

  • FICTION MURA (CEN, OSH)

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.

Physical Description

446 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

"Hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive, The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland 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. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket"--

Notes

"A new translation by Jay Rubin"--Jacket cover.

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.

Added Authors

Jay Rubin