Title:
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world : a novel
Author:
Preferred Call Number:
FICTION MURAKAMI
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, [1993]
Uniform Title:
Sekai no owari to hado-boirudo wandarando. English
Physical Description:
400 pages
General Note:
"This translation first published by Kodansha International Ltd. and Kodansha America, Inc. in 1991."--Title page verso.
Translation of: Sekai no owari to hado-boirudo wandarando.
Added Author:
ISBN:
9780679743460
9784770015440
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.