TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murakami,Haruki
AU  - Birnbaum,Alfred
TI  - Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world
SN  - 9780099448785
U1  - Fic 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Japanese fiction
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Fantasy fiction
N2  - 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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