END OF THE WORLD AND HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes a relentlessly inventive novel that dives deep into the very nature of consciousness.“Fantastical mysterious and funny . . . a fantasy world that might have been penned by Franz Kafka.”—The Philadelphia InquirerAcross two parallel narratives Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall Bob Dylan a split-brained data processor a deranged scientist his shockingly undemure granddaughter and various thugs librarians and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is a hyperkinetic novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.