End of the world and hard-boiled wonderland / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin ; with an introduction by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murakami, Haruki, 1949- author.

Contributor:

Rubin, Jay, 1941- translator.

Series:

Everyman's library ; 420.

Everyman's Library ; 420

Standardized Title:

Sekai no owari to hādo-boirudo wandārando. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Scientists--Fiction.

Scientists.

Space and time--Fiction.

Space and time.

Multiverse--Fiction.

Multiverse.

Japanese fiction--Translations into English.

Japanese fiction.

Genre:

Fantasy fiction.

Novels.

Humorous fiction.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 446 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.

Summary:

"Hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive, The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland is Haruki Murakami's deep dive into the very nature of consciousness. Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is a novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf."

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: McCormick fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780593320020

0593320026

OCLC:

1475287760