- Published: 1 April 2003
- ISBN: 9780099448785
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 416
- RRP: $22.99
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- Published: 1 April 2003
- ISBN: 9780099448785
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 416
- RRP: $22.99
His fantasies, with their easy reference to western pulp fiction and music, retain a beauty of the mind
Guardian
Murakami's bold willingness to go straight-over-the-top has always been a signal indication of his genius...a powerful melange of disillusioned radicalism, keen intelligence, wicked sarcasm and a general allegiance to the surreal. If Murakami is the "voice of a generation," as he is often proclaimed in Japan, then it is the generation of Thomas Pynchon and Don De Lillo
Washington Post
Combines a witty sci-fi pastiche and a dream-like Utopian fantasy in two separate narratives which alternate in an interweave of precognition and deja vu
Richard Lloyd Parry, Independent
Here is abundant imagination at play
Sunday Times
A remarkable writer...he captures the common ache of contemporary heart and head
Jay McInerney
He has become the foremost representative of the new style of Japanese writing: hip, cynical, highly stylized, set at the juncture of cyberpunk, postmodernism and hard-boiled detective fiction... Murakami is adept at outrageous wit, outrageous style.
Los Angeles Times