Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Contemporary Fiction) [Audiobook] [Audio CD]

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.