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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 a hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind. This unabridged edition uses the original Japanese title of the book, which was later inverted for foreign publications.
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Fantasy fiction, Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, fantasy, contemporary, Tokyo (japan), fiction, Roman, Japanisch, Ficción, Consciousness, Conciencia (Psicología), Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Japan, fiction, Japanese fiction, Translations into Chinese, Japanese fiction--translations into english, Pl856.u673 s4513 1993, 895.6/35Showing 2 featured editions. View all 26 editions?
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Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
1993, Vintage Books
in English
- 1st Vintage international ed.
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