A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following. Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, Murakami unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy. The result is a wildly inventive fantasy and a meditation on the many uses of the mind. (20021018)
##I would choose the end of world,too.
##第一次讀英譯本,村上的味道還是沒有變
##雙綫敘事。跟著村上聽歌讀書係列。然而陀氏腦殘粉不可能記不得卡拉馬佐夫三兄弟的名字。我的世界盡頭大概是小馬利亞吧!his emotional shell is too thick.
##其實不是我現在讀的版本,這是我今年的讀書計劃,就算讀完瞭吧。14年的計劃是讀日文版的。
##讀第三遍瞭還是精彩絕倫。
##村上最好的書,我認為
##雙綫敘事。跟著村上聽歌讀書係列。然而陀氏腦殘粉不可能記不得卡拉馬佐夫三兄弟的名字。我的世界盡頭大概是小馬利亞吧!his emotional shell is too thick.
##英文版漏瞭一些小細節呐~
##村上最好的書,我認為