The contemporary and the mythic collide in a hard-boiled tale of computers and conspiracy theories, unicorns and ancient lands.
If the world of Haruki Murakami is one where East meets West, nowhere are the two more scrambled than in this narrative particle accelerator of a novel in which a split-brained data-processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, thugs, librarians and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect.
What emerges is an hilariously funny and deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.
Winner of the Tanizaki Literary Prize
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