Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - by Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks; Unabridged | November 17, 2010 | Language: English | ASIN: B004D7X4N6 | Duration: 14 hours | 596.71 MB
Narrator: Adam Sims, Ian Porter | Genre: Fantasy | MP3 @ 128Kbps | 3% Recovery
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks; Unabridged | November 17, 2010 | Language: English | ASIN: B004D7X4N6 | Duration: 14 hours | 596.71 MB
Narrator: Adam Sims, Ian Porter | Genre: Fantasy | MP3 @ 128Kbps | 3% Recovery
The fantastical novels of Haruki Murakami have earned him a dedicated international fan-base and recurring success in the bestseller charts. In Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Murakamis brilliant imagination seizes on the worlds most ingenious and complex invention: the human mind. Two contrasting worlds are envisaged. In Hard-boiled Wonderland a shuffler is at work in Tokyo, where the minds of the people have become servant to the requirements of the governmental system.
In the surreal realm of the End of the World a dreamreader, sifts through memories, scattering them to oblivion. Gradually the alternate universes of the shuffler and the dreamreader are interwoven and Murakamis ingenious conception of the mind becomes clear. A feast for the imagination - Murakamis novel amazes, amuses and delights.
From AudioFile
This novel is constructed around two parallel stories that are presented in alternating chapters. Odd-numbered chapters, which are read by Adam Sims and take place in "Hard-Boiled Wonderland," tell the realistic story of a human data processor in Tokyo whose world has turned upside down. Even-numbered chapters, narrated by Ian Porter, tell the story of a newcomer to "The End of the World," an odd town whose residents live behind a wall and surrender their shadows. Sims and Porter are well matched for the alternating chapters. Each is introspective as his character explores the meaning of the mind. While the two stories are distinct, the similarity in the pace and tone of both narrators keeps things smooth as the stories converge.
About the Author
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo.
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