

The story alternates between two narratives, "Hard-Boiled Wonderland" and "The End of the World", and has a strange, dreamlike quality running through both. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Japanese: 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド, Sekai no Owari to Hādo-Boirudo Wandārando) is a 1985 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.

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That whole half of the book was such a different story than the previous Murakami stuff I read before, and I think it was a really good juxtaposition with the weirdly whimsical Hard-Boiled Wonderland half, and the whole binary/duality theme through the book was compelling. In the beginning, the End of the World part really dragged for me but as it started interweaving with the main story I started to really enjoy it. I really enjoyed Hard-Boiled Wonderland and kind of wanted to see what other's thought. I've read "Norwegian Wood" and "Wild Sheep Chase" before, and consider myself a Murakami fan. I just finished "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and End of the World" by Haruki Murakami.
