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The title Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World contains a reference to the 1962 pop hit "The End of the World," written by Arthur Kent and Sylvia Dee and sung by Skeeter Davis. Davis's version reached No. 2 on both Billboard 's Hot 100 chart [ 4 ] and Billboard 's Hot Country Songs chart.
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories. Translated by various. London: Penguin Classics. ISBN 978-0-241-31190-5. Rubin, Jay, ed. (2024). Great Japanese Stories: 10 Parallel Texts. Translated by various. London: Penguin Classics. ISBN 978-0-241-63447-9. Murakami, Haruki (2024). End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland: A New Translation.
Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction).The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence of organized crime that flourished during Prohibition (1920–1933) and its aftermath, while dealing with a legal system that has become as corrupt as ...
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985) by Haruki Murakami [56] Satantango (1985) by László Krasznahorkai [57] White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo [25] [26] The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood [citation needed] The New York Trilogy (1985–86) by Paul Auster [11] Red Sorghum (1986) by Mo Yan [58] Maus (1986) by Art ...
The man returns to his normal life, unmarried and working at a book publisher. Haunted by what he went through in the city beyond the walls and his lost love, he quits his job. He begins to dream of a library in the country side with a beret on his desk. The man asks his friend from his earlier job to try to find him a job at a library.
A fixture at any fast food restaurant or backyard barbecue is American cheese. These orange, plastic-wrapped slices are unparalleled in terms of meltability. For many, when it comes to making a ...
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A Companion to Crime Fiction describes Inter Ice Age 4 as a 'metaphysical detective story', comparing it with Andrew Crumey's Mobius Dick and Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, 'linking apocalyptic science fiction and metaphysical detective/mystery stories through antiphonal narratives, alternating "science" and ...