Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World)

( Japanese - Sekai no owari to hādo-boirudo wandārando ( 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド ) - 1985 )

novel by Haruki Murakami

translated by Alfred Birnbaum

Published: Hamish Hamilton - hardback - 1991 ( UK )
ISBN: |0241131448 / 9780241131442

Kodansha International - hardback - 1991 ( US )
ISBN: 4770015445 / 9784770015440

Penguin Books - trade paperback - 1992
ISBN: 0140154353 / 9780140154351

Vintage Books ( Int. ) - trade paperback - 1993
ISBN : 0679743464 / 9780679743460

Vintage Books ( UK ) - trade paperback - 2003
ISBN: 0099448785 / 9780099448785

Vintage Books - e-book - 2010
eISBN: 0307777693 / 9780307777690
ASIN : B005TKD9D6

Naxos AudioBooks - audiobook ( CD ) - 2010
ISBN: 9626343389 / 9789626343388

Brilliance Audio - audiobook ( CD ) - 2016
ISBN: 1522633545 / 9781522633549

Random House Audio - audiobook ( download ) 2018
ASIN B07DF6R6H3


synopsis
Across two parallel narratives ( Hardboiled World ( cyberpunk ) / End of the World ( fantasy ) a mind-bending universe is drawn. One 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.

awards
Tanizaki Prize, 1985