Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
β Scribed by Murakami, Haruki
- Book ID
- 107275252
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 849 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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Overview: Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949. He met his wife, Yoko, at university and they opened a jazz club in Tokyo called Peter Cat.
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