Title: Hard Boiled Wonderland
Artist: Murakami, Haruki
Label: Naxos Audio Books
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 9789626343388
Genre: Books on Tape/Cd, Box Sets

Information is everything in Hard-boiled Wonderland. A specialist encrypter is attacked by thugs with orders from an unknown source, is chased by invisible predators, and dates an insatiably hungry librarian who never puts on weight. In the End of the World a new arrival is learning his role as dream-reader. But there is something eerily disquieting about the changeless nature of the town and it's fable-like inhabitants. Told in alternate chapters, the two stories converge and combine to create a novel that is surreal, beautiful, thrilling and extraordinary.

Tracks:
1.1 1. Elevator, Silence, Overweight
1.2 On the Whole, I Think of Myself
1.3 I Turned My Attention to What Lay Beyond
1.4 This Was Pretty Much What I Was Thinking
1.5 2. Golden Beasts
1.6 No Sooner Have the First Animals Plodded
1.7 3. Rain Gear, Inklings, Laundry
1.8 All at Once I Was Plunged Into Darkness
1.9 Seconds Passed
1.10 Accordin Tmy Information, Those Inklings
1.11 That's Why I Called for Your Services
1.12 Semiotecs Traffic Illegally Obtained Data
2.1 4. the Library
2.2 This Is a Poor Town
2.3 As You Can See, No One Visits Here
2.4 5. Tabulations, Evolution, Sex Drive
2.5 You Two Live Alone?
2.6 What Say We Drop the Subject?
2.7 Why Didn't You Tell Me That
2.8 6. Shadow
2.9 Dreamreading Proves Not As Effortless
2.10 Once I Am Settled in, I Will Be
2.11 7. Skull, Lauren Bacall, Library
2.12 Something Put Me on Edge
2.13 At Eleven O'Clock, I Left the Apartment
3.1 After I Left the Restaurant
3.2 Back at the Apartment
3.3 I Picked Up the Stainless-Steel Tongs
3.4 8. the Colonel
3.5 If the Workers Quarter
3.6 9. Appetite, Disappointment, Leningrad
3.7 Overwork. I Mean, If You Were Really
3.8 The Difference Was Not Simply One of Appearance
3.9 You're a Real Whiz at These Explanations
3.10 Professor Petrov ? for That Was His Name
3.11 10. the Wall
3.12 I Follow Him Outside
4.1 11. Dressing, Watermelon, Chaos
4.2 In View of All Contingencies, They Went on
4.3 12. a Map of the End of the World
4.4 The River Rushes Down in a Torrent
4.5 On a Dark November Afternoon, We Set Out
4.6 13. Frankfurt, Door, Independent Operants
4.7 I Know You're Going to Think I'm Terrible
4.8 The Supermarket Customers Gradually Increase
4.9 I Turned Around to Watch
4.10 All Right, I Think You Guys
4.11 Most of the Calcutec Compu-Systems
4.12 14. Woods
4.13 We Gaze at the Clouds on the Northern Ridge
5.1 The Farther I Venture from the Wall
5.2 My Eyes Still Closed, I Think
5.3 15. Whiskey, Torture, Turgenev
5.4 Nobodys Gonna Doubt You
5.5 Were Gonna Go Now
5.6 When I Was Alone Again
5.7 I Shut the Book
5.8 16. the Coming of Winter
5.9 I Close My Eyes and Try to Collect
5.10 I Beg a Pair of Work Boots from the Colonel
5.11 17. End of the World, Charlie Parker, Time Bomb
5.12 So You Didn't Go to School
6.1 18. Dreamreading
6.2 There Would Be a Landscape I Have Not Seen Before
6.3 19. Hamburgers, Skyline, Deadline
6.4 While We Waited for the Food to Come
6.5 But Suppose I Took You Up on the Offer
6.6 How About the Inkling-Repel Device?
6.7 20. the Death of the Beasts
6.8 I Gaze at Their Hushed Forms
6.9 21. Bracelets, Ben Johnson, Devil
6.10 Exactly Five Minutes Later We Arrived
6.11 What Made Your Grandfather Choose This
6.12 We Continued Scaling the Mountain
6.13 The Aged Devil Sat on a Rock
7.1 22. Gray Smoke
7.2 I Chase Up the Pieces of Memory Left to Me
7.3 When She Was Alone in Her Room
7.4 23. Holes, Leeches, Tower
7.5 Sorry I Couldn't Help You
7.6 There's the Altar, She Said
7.7 There Ended the Memory. Though I Couldn't
7.8 24. Shadow Grounds
7.9 The Gatekeeper Retrieves a Ring of Keys
7.10 I Look Up at the Elm Tree Overhead
7.11 25. Meal, Elephant Factory, Trap
7.12 You Gave Me Some Numbers to Shuffle
7.13 So Our Behavioral Patterns Run According to Commands
8.1 Now, the Original Cognitive System
8.2 You're Saying You Reproduced Our Minds?
8.3 But the Truth Is, Aside from Myself
8.4 I Leaned My Head Back Against the Rock Wall
8.5 Then, What's This About the World Ending?
8.6 26. Power Station
8.7 We Pause on the Rock and Gaze
8.8 Good-Day, I Raise My Voice
8.9 27. Encyclopedia Wand, Immortality, Paperclips
8.10 That's How You Can Fit Data of Any Length
8.11 Now, Which Way to the Exit, Please?
9.1 28. Musical Instruments
9.2 I Reach for a Wooden Instrument
9.3 29. Lake, Masatomi Kondo, Panty Hose
9.4 So the System Hangs Out a Sign
9.5 Keep Moving! She Yelled
9.6 The Couple in the Skyline Came to Mind
9.7 One Thing Led to Another
9.8 30. Hole
9.9 There Are Now Six Old Men
9.10 31. Fares, Police, Detergent
9.11 The Girl Claimed the Back Pages
9.12 A Person with Twenty-Four Hours Left
10.1 32. Shadow in the Throes of Death
10.2 So How Do We Escape?
10.3 Then, of Course, There's Love
10.4 33. Rainy-Day Laundry, Car Rental, Bob Dylan
10.5 I Moved on to the Patisserie
10.6 Was That So Depressing?
10.7 My Prize Retrieved
10.8 34. Skulls
10.9 I Take a Sip of Coffee
10.10 She Meditates on Her Hands Folded
10.11 35. Nail Clippers, Butter Sauce, Iron Vase
10.12 Having Settled on An Aperitivo
10.13 But It's None of My Creation
10.14 The Oven Timer Rang: The Pizza Was Done
11.1 36. Accordion
11.2 After a Time, I Am Able, As If By Will
11.3 37. Lights, Introspection, Cleanliness
11.4 The Unwaking World Was As Hushed
11.5 As Dawn Drew Near
11.6 38. Escape
11.7 The Gatehouse Is Deserted
11.8 We Head East on the Snowbound Roads
11.9 39. Popcorn, Lord Jim, Extinction
11.10 So Much for Literature
11.11 You Know, It Might Be Dangerous There
11.12 40. Birds