Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world : a novel / Haruki Murakami ; translated by Alfred Birnbaum.
Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
1993
PL856.U673 S4513 1993 (Mapit)
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Title Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world : a novel / Haruki Murakami ; translated by Alfred Birnbaum.
Author Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
Uniform Title Sekai no owari to hādo-boirudo wandārando. English
Edition 1st Vintage international ed.
ISBN 9780679743460 (paperback)
0679743464 (paperback)
Publication Details New York : Vintage Books, 1993.
Language English
Description 400 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Call Number PL856.U673 S4513 1993
Dewey Decimal Classification 895.6/35
Summary The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects' heads with electrodes that decipher coded messages is the unnamed narrator. Half the chapters are set in Tokyo, where the narrator negotiates underground worlds populated by INKlings, dodges opponents of both sides of a raging high-tech infowar, and engages in an affair with a beautiful librarian with a gargantuan appetite. In alternating chapters he tries to reunite with his mind and his shadow, from which he has been severed by the grim, dark "replacement" consciousness implanted in him by a dotty neurophysiologist. Both worlds share the unearthly theme of unicorn skulls that moan and glow.
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Elevator, silence, overweight
Golden beasts
Rain gear INKlings, laundry
The library
Tabulations, evolution, sex drive
Shadow
Skull, Lauren Bacall, library
The colonel
Appetite, disappointment, Leningrad
The wall
Dressing, watermelon, chaos
A map of the end of the world
Frankfurt, door, independent operants
Woods
Whiskey, torture, Turgenev
The coming of winter
End of the world, Charlie Parker, time bomb
Dreamreading
Hamburgers, skyline, deadline
The death of the beasts
Bracelets, Ben Johnson, devil
Gray smoke
Holes, leeches, tower
Shadow grounds
Meal, elephant factory, trap
Power station
Encyclopedia wand, immortality, paperclips
Musical instruments
Lake, Masaomi Kondo, panty hose
Hole
Fares, police, detergent
Shadow in the throes of death
Rainy-day laundry, car rental, Bob Dylan
Skulls
Nail clippers, butter sauce, iron vase
Accordion
Lights, introspection, cleanliness
Escape
Popcorn, Lord Jim, extinction
Birds.

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