{"product_id":"9781529957754","title":"Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Murakami, Haruki \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 3 July 2025 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 416 pages\u003cbr\u003e127 x 197 x 28 | 288g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMurakami's surreal, mind-bending masterpiece: a sci-fi pastiche and a Utopian fantasy novel ingeniously woven together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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, post-modern manifesto. All this rolled into one rip-roaring novel, End of the World and Hard-boiled Wonderland is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami’s international following.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, Murakami unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A remarkable writer...he captures the common ache of contemporary heart and head’ Jay McInerney‘His fantasies, with their easy reference to western pulp fiction and music, retain a beauty of the mind’ GuardianWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55462136119671,"sku":"9781529957754","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781529957754.jpg?v=1752833444","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.pro\/products\/9781529957754","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}