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334 Pages·2011·2.54 MB·English
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HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND AND THE END OF THE WORLD by Haruki Murakami Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949. He met his wife, Yoko, at university and they opened a jazz club in Tokyo called Peter Cat. The massive success of his novel Norwegian Wood (1987) made him a national celebrity. He fled Japan and did not return until 1995. His other books include after the quake, Dance Dance Dance, A Wild Sheep Chase, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Underground, his first work of non-fiction, Sputnik Sweetheart and South of the Border, West of the Sun. He has translated into Japanese the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, John Irving and Raymond Carver. Alfred Birnbaum was born in Washington D.C. in 1957 and grew up in Tokyo. He is the translator of Dance Dance Dance and A Wild Sheep Chase. He has also translated works by Natsuki Ikezawa, Kyoji Kobayashi, Miyuki Miyabe, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa and Gen'ichiro Takahashi and compiled the anthology Monkey Brain Sushi: New Tastes in Japanese Fiction. Also by Haruki Murakami Fiction Dance Dance Dance The Elephant Vanishes A Wild Sheep Chase Norwegian Wood The Wind-up Bird Chronicle South of the Border, West of the Sun Sputnik Sweetheart after the quake Non-Fiction Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche Haruki Murakami HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND AND THE END OF THE WORLD TRANSLATED FROM THE JAPANESE BY Alfred Birnbaum CONTENTS Elevator, Silence, Overweight Golden Beasts Rain Gear, INKlings, Laundry The Library Tabulations, Evolution, Sex Drive Shadow Skull, Lauren Bacall, Library The Colonel Appetite, Disappointment, Leningrad The Wall Dressing, Watermelon, Chaos A Map of the End of the World Frankfurt, Door, Independent Operants Woods Whiskey, Torture, Turgenev The Coming of Winter End of the World, Charlie Parker, Time Bomb Dreamreading Hamburgers, Skyline, Deadline The Death of the Beasts Bracelets, Ben Johnson, Devi! Gray Smoke Holes, Leeches, Tower Shadow Grounds Meal, Elephant Factory, Trap Power Station Encyclopedia Wand, Immortality, Paperclips Musical Instruments Lake, Masatomi Kondo, Parity Hose Hole Fares, Police, Detergent Shadow in the Throes of Death Rainy-Day Laundry, Car Rental, Bob Dylan Skuls Nail Clippers, Butter Sauce, Iron Vase Accordion Lights, Introspection, Cleanliness Escape Popcorn, Lord Jim, Extinction Birds Elevator, Silence, Overweight

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