However, I think I am not good enough to #rant about this book anymore. Secondly, the structure of the book is similar to Kafka on the Shore and 1Q84. It’s vaguer than any of Murakami’s other #books . They are merely referred by their physical traits or by their functions or former profession. None of the characters or places have any name per se.

An interesting fact about this book is the nomenclature. next, the #translation by Alfred Birnbaum is brilliant! Better than Gabriel’s, I must say. Well, this makes it actually very difficult to find any flaws in it. This equilibrium in the plot echoes throughout the setting of the End of the World. It’s so perfectly balanced, in terms of humour, #suspense , revelations, plot twists, characters, thematic elements, and so on. I am at awe after reading this book, and I understand why this is the author’s favourite among all his other books. I had to DNF this book in December last year, because I was suffering from pox then. After I came to know about Haruki Murakami’s works, this book was on the top of my #tbrpile , because of its name. What is Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World all about, you ask? This book is a literary combo of #scifi (read #cyberpunk ), #existentialism , #magic , #technology , #memory , oblivion, #time,, fatalism and free will, skull study and #human #psychology .

More than Kafka on the Shore AND 1Q84, I mind you This is the most un-Murakami #book I have ever read, and I loved it. This book is not as easy as Norwegian Wood either. This book is not as complicated as Kafka on the Shore.

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