End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland: Isabel Vincent The pelican does what a

The pelican does what a pelican can do

and translated all over the world

and is suspected in the disappearance of two sisters

but before the police can arrive it is stolen in a violent raid

End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland: Isabel Vincent The pelican does what aHyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive, The End of the World and Hard Boiled Wonderland is Haruki Murakami's deep dive into the very nature of consciousness. 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.