Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami

Posted : 2 years, 3 months ago at Aug 12 16:24

I picked this up on the recommendation of a friend and didn't know quite what to expect. I glossed over the blurb on the back and saw the words 'detective story' and was instantly sold. The book is written in a manner that has alternate chapters telling two seemingly unrelated stories. Hard Boiled wonderland doesn't really take the form of a detective story at all, though there is plenty of mystery involved. It follows a yuppie kind of fellow employed by the 'System' - a ubiquitous company which deals in data protection. His latest client, an eccentric professor, seems to have strange connections to the System and eventually the life of the protagonist is changed forever when he agrees to process data from the professors latest experiments. The end of the world story involves a town...Read more

Rating : 9/10