Hard-boiled Wonderland und das Ende der Welt

Author's Note
Haruki Murakami, born in 1949 in Kyoto, is one of the most important contemporary writers. His novel "Norwegian Wood" divided the Literary Quartet, and with "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," he wrote the cult book of his generation. He lived for an extended period in Europe and the USA. Murakami is an internationally celebrated author, awarded the highest Japanese literary prizes for numerous novels and stories. He has translated the works of Raymond Chandler, John Irving, Truman Capote, and Raymond Carver into Japanese.

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Tokyo, a distant present: Between reality and virtual reality. Data theft is rampant: A brilliant elderly scientist has managed to brainwash a group of professional data forgers. He extracts information from them, which he then implants into the brains of unsuspecting test subjects. The 35-year-old protagonist and first-person narrator is the only one to survive the procedure. From then on, he attempts to thwart the professor's dark machinations by any means necessary...