This involves skulls, but as staying there means having to lose your shadow and your mind, it, too, gets complicated. He tries to find his place there, while doing his designated work as a ‘dream reader’. There we follow a nameless man arriving in a nameless Town surrounded by an impenetrable wall. “The End of the World” is a more surreal, fantasy affair. There are two narrative threads, presented in alternating chapters: in “Hard-Boiled Wonderland” is a cyber-techno-punk sci-fy crime story, in which we follow a nameless human data-crusher, sent to do some calculations for a nameless scientist hidden away in a subterranean lair. I had previously read Haruki Murakami’s The Strange Library, and since that was a nice, quaint, strange, weird, but enjoyable little book, I dove in. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World was a selection of The Missus’s book-club she didn’t get to. First Lines: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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