Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum

By:

Murakami, Haruki [author]

Contributor(s):

Birnbaum, Alfred [translator]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Vintage Books, 2003Description: 400 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780099448785

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Fantasy fiction

DDC classification:

Summary: A specialist encrypter is attacked by thugs with orders from an unknown source, is chased by invisible predators, and dates an insatiably hungry librarian who never puts on weight. In the End of the World a new arrival is learning his role as dream-reader. But there is something eerily disquieting about the changeless nature of the town and its fable-like inhabitants. Told in alternate chapters, the two stories converge and combine to create a novel that is surreal, beautiful, thrilling and extraordinary.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Cubao Branch Fiction Area	Fiction	Fic M972h 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	121449d

A specialist encrypter is attacked by thugs with orders from an unknown source, is chased by invisible predators, and dates an insatiably hungry librarian who never puts on weight. In the End of the World a new arrival is learning his role as dream-reader. But there is something eerily disquieting about the changeless nature of the town and its fable-like inhabitants. Told in alternate chapters, the two stories converge and combine to create a novel that is surreal, beautiful, thrilling and extraordinary.

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