Critical Acclaim
Jay Rubin, who has translated many of Murakami's later works into English, said that Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is his favorite Murakami novel and that it "is just a shock after reading the black and white, autobiographical fiction that is such the norm in Japan."
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World was awarded the prestigious Tanizaki Prize in 1985.
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