Hard-Boiled Wonderland Breakfast
October 16, 2021The café in The Museum of Modern Japanese Literature serves dishes based on literary works including Hard-boiled Wonderland breakfast.
Category: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Tanizaki and Murakami
January 14, 2021Jun’ichirō Tanizaki (1886-1965) is one of the most appreciated novelists of Japanese literature. The award named after Tanizaki is one of the most prestigious ones and was given to Murakami for Hard–Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World in 1985. Murakami highly respects Tanizaki. He met Mrs Matsuko Tanizaki (1903-1990), the maestro’s wife, at […]
Bob Dylan was at the unexpected place
October 16, 2016Found Bob Dylan illustrated on the top of all the odd-numbered chapters of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Japanese edition.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World places
August 24, 2014Pictures of the places possibly appeared or mentioned in Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. “And where were these unicorns?” “In here,” I said, tapping my temple. “The unicorns were all in my head.” — Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Ch. 31) The sculptures of unicorns […]