Hard-Boiled Wonderland / the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780679743460 : 0679743464 : 02 Mar 1993 : Japan's most widely-read and controversial writer, author of A Wild Sheep Chase, hurtles into the consciousness of the West with this narrative about a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters--not to mention Bob Dylan and Lauren Bacall.