Book · 1985 · Fiction

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Name: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Author: Haruki Murakami

Vintage Books (Penguin Random House) · 400 pages

★ 6.4 editorial score

Two stories alternate: a man who encrypts data inside his mind, and a newcomer to a walled town reading dreams from unicorn skulls. Murakami has been returning to that architecture for forty years.

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Science fiction Speculative fiction Surrealism

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