are set on fast-forward: raucous, slangy, irreverent. has captured the crazed, surreal feel of Murakami's Japanese." - The Times (London) "His novels. a combination of Kafka's castle, Borges's library, and the Prisoner's TV village." - Village Voice Literary Supplement "Off the wall. He is wry, absurd, and desolate." - Los Angeles Times Book Review " mix of American fun and Japanese dread." -Esquire "An intertwining DNA model of seemingly contrary elements. provocative work." - The Atlantic "Murakami's gift is for ironic observations that hint at something graver.
And in fact thats what happens: the rest of. a fantasy world that might have been penned by Franz Kafka." - Philadelphia Inquirer "Rich in action, suspense, odd characters and unexpected trifles. Hell die, or rather die to the outside world, being locked forever in his own subconscious. Murakami adept at deadpan wit, outrageous style." - Los Angeles Times Magazine "Fantastical, mysterious, and funny. a world-class writer who has both eyes open and takes big risks." - The Washington Post Book World "He has become the foremost representative of a new style of Japanese writing: hip, cynical, highly stylized, set at the juncture of cyberpunk, postmodernism, and hard-boiled detective fiction. The concurrent storyline, The End of the World, has, again, an unnamed narrator with total amnesia about his previous life. Embroiled in a moral quandary, the scientist leaves the."Murakami's bold willingness to go straight over the top a signal indication of his genius. One man has developed the next step in encryption technology and made some advances within the System's developmental laboratories but only at a high cost-most operatives modified to perform the new process die within a few months only one has survived. An organized crime network known as the Factory opposes the System at every stage. System operatives known as Calcutecs serve as living encryption devices, using algorithms hidden in their neural circuitry to securely encrypt data. A quasi-governmental organization known as the System controls access to legal encryption technologies and methods. Throughout the novel, the two worlds increasingly connect and, in the end, Boku and Watashi fuse into one. Access to data encryption is critical in order to protect valuable corporate and financial data from organized crime. One, Hard-Boiled Wonderland, is set in a lightly science-fictioned version of the present day (i.e. In Hard-Boiled Wonderland, the character Watashi is assigned to a futuristic Tokyo that is the scene of deadly conflicts between two competing information networks. Tokyo is a hub of information technology companies in a future world where biotechnology is significantly advanced. Chapter 1, Elevator, Silence, Overweight Summary
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