Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World D&AD The present can be tense

The present can be tense

It's a bracketed showdown among sixteen bugs and insects

and recycling initiatives

Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty

A woman is found murdered after an internet date

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World D&AD The present can be tenseHyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive, Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is Haruki Murakami's deep dive into the very nature of consciousness. Across 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.