![]() ![]() Murakami's ingenuity and inventiveness cannot fail to intoxicate this is a bravura performance. Intertwined with the agent's attempts to understand his plight are scenes from The End of the World. But after interference from a scientist and from the Semiotecs, a rival intelligence unit, the subconscious story is about to replace the agent's own perceptions of reality. The concurrent storyline, The End of the World, has, again, an unnamed narrator with total amnesia about his previous life. Hard-Boiled Wonderland, set in a gritty urban environment, tells the story of an unnamed Narrator as he slowly realizes his unwitting involvement in biotechnology experiments on his own mind and consciousness. Thanks to a wonderland of technology, an intelligence agent has had his brain implanted with a ``profoundly personal drama'' that allows him to ``launder'' and ``shuffle'' classified data, and all that he knows of the drama is its password, The End of the World. Embellished with witticisms, wordplay and allusions to such figures as Stendhal heroes and Lauren Bacall, the tale is set in a Tokyo of the near future. ![]() ![]() The plot here is so elaborate that about 100 pages, one-fourth of the book, elapse before its various elements begin to fit together, but Murakami's lightning prose more than sustains the reader. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Kindle Edition by Haruki Murakami (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 2,237 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. There ought to be a name for the genre Murakami ( A Wild Sheep Chase ) has invented, and it might be the literary pyrotechno-thriller. ![]()
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