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

Vintage International, 1993. Trade pb. Yellowed pages. Light edge wear. VG-. 

Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is a hyperkinetic novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.