Information is everything in Hard-boiled Wonderland. A specialist encrypter is attacked by thugs with orders from an unknown source, is chased by invisible predators, and dates an insatiably hungry librarian who never puts on weight. In the End of the World a new arrival is learning his role as dream-reader. But there is something eerily disquieting about the changeless nature of the town and it's fable-like inhabitants. Told in alternate chapters, the two stories converge and combine to create a novel that is surreal, beautiful, thrilling and extraordinary.

Tracklist:

Elevator, Silence, Overweight
On the Whole, I Think of Myself
I Turned My Attention to What Lay Beyond
This Was Pretty Much What I Was Thinking
Golden Beasts
No Sooner Have the First Animals Plodded
Rain Gear, Inklings, Laundry
All at Once I Was Plunged Into Darkness
Seconds Passed 1
Accordin Tmy Information, Those Inklings 1
That's Why I Called for Your Services 1
Semiotecs Traffic Illegally Obtained Data 1
the Library 1
This Is a Poor Town 1
As You Can See, No One Visits Here 1
Tabulations, Evolution, Sex Drive 1
You Two Live Alone? 1
What Say We Drop the Subject? 1
Why Didn't You Tell Me That 2
Shadow 2
Dreamreading Proves Not As Effortless 2
Once I Am Settled in, I Will Be 2
Skull, Lauren Bacall, Library 2
Something Put Me on Edge 2
At Eleven O'Clock, I Left the Apartment 2
After I Left the Restaurant 2
Back at the Apartment 2
I Picked Up the Stainless-Steel Tongs 2
the Colonel 3
If the Workers Quarter 3
Appetite, Disappointment, Leningrad 3
Overwork. I Mean, If You Were Really 3
The Difference Was Not Simply One of Appearance 3
You're a Real Whiz at These Explanations 3
Professor Petrov ? for That Was His Name 3
1
the Wall 3
I Follow Him Outside 3
1
Dressing, Watermelon, Chaos 3
In View of All Contingencies, They Went on 4
1
a Map of the End of the World 4
The River Rushes Down in a Torrent 4
On a Dark November Afternoon, We Set Out 4
1
Frankfurt, Door, Independent Operants 4
I Know You're Going to Think I'm Terrible 4
The Supermarket Customers Gradually Increase 4
I Turned Around to Watch 4
All Right, I Think You Guys 4
Most of the Calcutec Compu-Systems 4
1
Woods 5
We Gaze at the Clouds on the Northern Ridge 5
The Farther I Venture from the Wall 5
My Eyes Still Closed, I Think 5
1
Whiskey, Torture, Turgenev 5
Nobodys Gonna Doubt You 5
Were Gonna Go Now 5
When I Was Alone Again 5
I Shut the Book 5
1
the Coming of Winter 5
I Close My Eyes and Try to Collect 6
I Beg a Pair of Work Boots from the Colonel 6
1
End of the World, Charlie Parker, Time Bomb 6
So You Didn't Go to School 6
1
Dreamreading 6
There Would Be a Landscape I Have Not Seen Before 6
1
Hamburgers, Skyline, Deadline 6
While We Waited for the Food to Come 6
But Suppose I Took You Up on the Offer 6
How About the Inkling-Repel Device? 6
2
the Death of the Beasts 7
I Gaze at Their Hushed Forms 7
2
Bracelets, Ben Johnson, Devil 7
Exactly Five Minutes Later We Arrived 7
What Made Your Grandfather Choose This 7
We Continued Scaling the Mountain 7
The Aged Devil Sat on a Rock 7
2
Gray Smoke 7
I Chase Up the Pieces of Memory Left to Me 7
When She Was Alone in Her Room 7
2
Holes, Leeches, Tower 8
Sorry I Couldn't Help You 8
There's the Altar, She Said 8
There Ended the Memory. Though I Couldn't 8
2
Shadow Grounds 8
The Gatekeeper Retrieves a Ring of Keys 8
I Look Up at the Elm Tree Overhead 8
2
Meal, Elephant Factory, Trap 8
You Gave Me Some Numbers to Shuffle 8
So Our Behavioral Patterns Run According to Commands 8
Now, the Original Cognitive System 9
You're Saying You Reproduced Our Minds? 9
But the Truth Is, Aside from Myself 9
I Leaned My Head Back Against the Rock Wall 9
Then, What's This About the World Ending? 9
2
Power Station 9
We Pause on the Rock and Gaze 9
Good-Day, I Raise My Voice 9
2
Encyclopedia Wand, Immortality, Paperclips 9
That's How You Can Fit Data of Any Length 9
Now, Which Way to the Exit, Please? 10
2
Musical Instruments 10
I Reach for a Wooden Instrument 10
2
Lake, Masatomi Kondo, Panty Hose 10
So the System Hangs Out a Sign 10
Keep Moving! She Yelled 10
The Couple in the Skyline Came to Mind 10
One Thing Led to Another 10
3
Hole 10
There Are Now Six Old Men 10
3
Fares, Police, Detergent 11
The Girl Claimed the Back Pages 11
A Person with Twenty-Four Hours Left 11
3
Shadow in the Throes of Death 11
So How Do We Escape? 11
Then, of Course, There's Love 11
3
Rainy-Day Laundry, Car Rental, Bob Dylan 11
I Moved on to the Patisserie 11
Was That So Depressing? 11
My Prize Retrieved 11
3
Skulls 12
I Take a Sip of Coffee 12
She Meditates on Her Hands Folded 12
3
Nail Clippers, Butter Sauce, Iron Vase 12
Having Settled on An Aperitivo 12
But It's None of My Creation 12
The Oven Timer Rang: The Pizza Was Done 12
3
Accordion 12
After a Time, I Am Able, As If By Will 12
3
Lights, Introspection, Cleanliness 12
The Unwaking World Was As Hushed 13
As Dawn Drew Near 13
3
Escape 13
The Gatehouse Is Deserted 13
We Head East on the Snowbound Roads 13
3
Popcorn, Lord Jim, Extinction 13
So Much for Literature 13
You Know, It Might Be Dangerous There 13
4
Birds

UPC: 9789626343388
Label: Naxos Audio Books
Release Date: 4.1.10
Format: CD

Haruki Murakami - Hard Boiled Wonderland (CD)