Five-star review of
Hard-boiled Wonderland and The End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Very interesting book. Two
stories told alternately, each in a different setting. The unnamed protagonist
of the story set in a modern Japanese city has more fantastical adventures even
than the also unnamed protagonist who recently arrived in the kind of walled
village that often appears in fantasies. Echoes of one story appear in the
other. Both have a library and librarian, both have skulls, to be precise,
unicorn skulls. Slowly but surely the relationship between the two stories
becomes apparent and so does the fact that Murakami is talking about the human mind.
But the writing is clear and humorous and that makes the book easy to grasp and
enjoyable even when it goes into absurd science fantasy or difficult scientific
concepts.
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