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The narrator, living in Tokyo in the near future, is a fellow aspiring to decency and self-respect. His work is to shuffle numbers for national security. Meanwhile his shadowless unconscious reads dreams gleaned from skulls resembling those of unicorns. by the author of "A Wild Cheese Chase".

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"His fantasies, with their easy reference to western pulp fiction and music, retain a beauty of the mind" (Guardian)

"A remarkable writer...he captures the common ache of contemporary heart and head" (Jay McInerney)

"Combines a witty sci-fi pastiche and a dream-like Utopian fantasy in two separate narratives which alternate in an interweave of precognition and deja vu" (Richard Lloyd Parry Independent)

"Here is abundant imagination at play" (Sunday Times)

"Murakami's bold willingness to go straight-over-the-top has always been a signal indication of his genius...a powerful melange of disillusioned radicalism, keen intelligence, wicked sarcasm and a general allegiance to the surreal. If Murakami is the "voice of a generation," as he is often proclaimed in Japan, then it is the generation of Thomas Pynchon and Don De Lillo" (Washington Post)
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A wildly inventive fantasy and a meditation on the many uses of the mind from one of the world's greatest writers

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  • PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
  • Publication date1992
  • ISBN 10 0140154353
  • ISBN 13 9780140154351
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages416
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