{"product_id":"end-of-the-world-and-hard-boiled-wonderland-haruki-murakami","title":"End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland (Haruki Murakami)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA special hardback edition of Murakami's surreal, mind-bending masterpiece, in a new, unabridged translation from Jay Rubin.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, \u003ci\u003eEnd of the World and Hard-boiled Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition is a newly unabridged translation from long-time Murakami collaborator, Jay Rubin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A remarkable writer...he captures the common ache of contemporary heart and head' Jay McInerney\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1978, \u003cb\u003eHaruki Murakami\u003c\/b\u003e was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, \u003ci\u003eHear the Wind Sing\u003c\/i\u003e, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including \u003ci\u003eA Wild Sheep Chase\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHard-Boiled Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eEnd of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, but it was \u003ci\u003eNorwegian Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn works such as \u003ci\u003eThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e1Q84,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFirst Person Singular\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe City and Its Uncertain Walls\u003c\/i\u003e Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\nJay Rubin is the author of \u003ci\u003eInjurious to Public Morals: Writers and the Meiji State\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMaking Sense of Japanese\u003c\/i\u003e, and he edited \u003ci\u003eModern Japanese Writers\u003c\/i\u003e for the Scribner Writers Series. He has translated into English two novels by the Japanese writer Soseki Natsume, and also Haruki Murakami's \u003ci\u003eNorwegian Wood, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eafter the quake\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 464 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65781284864349,"sku":"K097809361","price":20.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9780936100001A.jpg?v=1788320914","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/end-of-the-world-and-hard-boiled-wonderland-haruki-murakami","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}