Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki MurakamiMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
A brilliant book that I started reading slowly and then couldn’t put down by the end, mysteries slowly being unfolded up till the very end. It’s as if the book created a beautiful fruit, surrounded by layers, and then proceeded to peel those layers off very slowly with a sense of delicate beauty and balance. The enjoyment gotten from seeing the answers at the core of the layers being peeled compounded by the enjoyment gotten from the very act of peeling.
If that was all it was, a masterful novel with mystery and intrigue, it would’ve been amazing anyway. However, that was not all it was. It was more, because at every stage I couldn’t help but think and try to decipher my own reactions to it. By the end, I was feeling a torrent of emotions but I couldn’t name any of them. No, these were not garden variety emotions of grief or sadness. They were more complex, more full of thought and horror and questions.
I’ll dream of this book, I have no doubt. Of the ending, of the people, of what it means to me and my life. It was a journey, so beautifully cathartic and intensely powerful in the truest sense of the world.
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