{"product_id":"9781529957754","title":"Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eMurakami's surreal, mind-bending masterpiece: a sci-fi pastiche and a Utopian fantasy novel ingeniously woven together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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, post-modern manifesto. All this rolled into one rip-roaring novel, End of the World and Hard-boiled Wonderland is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTracking 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A remarkable writer...he captures the common ache of contemporary heart and head' Jay McInerney\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'His fantasies, with their easy reference to western pulp fiction and music, retain a beauty of the mind' Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48241231659243,"sku":"EB_LI0710_B18-04_SIMS","price":25.95,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781529957754-1.jpg?v=1783519814","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781529957754","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}