![]() ![]() ![]() The even chapters take place in a mysterious city where the animals are taken outside of its walls every night and let in again in the morning. The uneven chapters feature a sci-fi-esque Tokyo with human data processors, a gang war going on behind the scenes and a mad professor who works on removing sound. These two parts appear to be entirely separate at first, with only some overlaps in themes and motifs, but come together at the end of the book. The chapters in this book alternate between the ‘Hard-Boiled Wonderland’ part of the book (uneven chapters) and ‘The End of the World’ (even chapters). Not unlike your average literary work, I’d argue. It’s not uplifting, but this stems from its ‘gritty realistic’ atmosphere full of interesting philosophical musings on the concepts of memory, reality and identity rather than any down-right depressiveness. In retrospect, I think my belief that this book would be depressing was wrong. Then, a few weeks ago one of my friends suggested that we read this for our book club and I finally picked it up. I had heard that Murakami’s book are very depressing and I was a bit too scared to start. I can’t even remember how long ago I thought ‘I should read some Murakami’ and bought this book. ![]() If you’ve already read it, perhaps you’ll enjoy a discussion about its ending (look out for my second post of today). This is a spoiler-free (or at least spoiler-light) review of this book. ![]()
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