History Literature / HardBoiledWonderlandAndTheEndOfTheWorld

* LongTitle: It is a combination of two titles, kind of.
* LossOfIdentity: A major theme.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Two thugs show up at the narrator's home in Hard-Boiled Wonderland and trash it, but their purpose is unknown.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The End of the World plot]], leading to [[spoiler: a DownerEnding for the Hard-Boiled Wonderland plot]].
* BigBeautifulWoman: according to the narrator, the Granddaughter is pudgy in a very attractive way.

* ConsummateProfessional: the Narrator is very cool, methodic, and disciplined about his job.
* CrystalSkull: The protagonist is given a skull by the professor [[spoiler: which glows]]

* MindScrew: It's Creator/HarukiMiyazaki's CreatorThumbprint.

* MindScrew: It's Miyazaki's CreatorThumbprint.

* OntologicalMystery: The End of the World and its city.

* HormoneAddledTeenager: [[spoiler:the Granddaughter]] is attracted to the Narrator. The Narrator rejects her despite being attracted to her as well, out of professionalism and common sense.
* HumanPopsicle: [[spoiler: the narrator of Hard-Boiled Wonderland might end up as one until the Professor figures out how to get his mind back.]]

%%* MindScrew
* NamelessNarrative: none of the characters in the book have names.

%%* TwoLinesNoWaiting

%%* LongTitle

%%* OntologicalMystery

* HumanPopsicle: [[spoiler: the narrator of Hard-Boiled Wonderland might end up as one until the Professor figures out how to get his mind back.]]

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding]]: See the entry for Bittersweet Ending above.

* [[spoiler: HumanPopsicle: the narrator of Hard-Boiled Wonderland might end up as one until the Professor figures out how to get his mind back.]]

* JigsawPuzzlePlot

* LongTitle

* MindScrew

* OntologicalMystery
* RansackedRoom

* TwoLinesNoWaiting

''Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'' (Japanese: 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド, ''Sekai no Owari to Hādo-Boirudo Wandārando'') is a 1985 novel by Japanese author HarukiMurakami. The story alternates between two narratives, "Hard-Boiled Wonderland" and "The End of the World", and has a strange, dreamlike quality running through both.

* {{Unicorn}}: At the End of the World, there are beasts living outside the town that are described as unicorns, although they are quite different from the traditional description. The narrator uses their skulls for "dreamreading". The narrator of Hard-Boiled Wonderland also encounters a unicorn skull at one point.
* {{Woolseyism}}: The two narrators use different JapanesePronouns to refer to themselves. Since this doesn't carry over well into English, the English translation uses a different method to set the two apart -- "Hard-Boiled Wonderland" is narrated in past tense, while "End of the World" is narrated in present tense.

* {{Unicorn}}: At the End of the World, there are beasts living outside the town that are described as unicorns, although they are quite different from the traditional description. The narrator uses their skulls for "dreamreading". The narrator of Hard-Boiled Wonderland also encounters a unicorn skull at one point.

The first narrative tells the story of an unnamed protagonist in a {{Cyberpunk}} future Tokyo who is trained to be what is essentially a human data processor, whose subconscious holds an encryption key to prevent the information from falling into the wrong hands. The second narrative follows an individual who has just arrived in a strange walled town where the inhabitants, including the narrator, have been separated from their shadows and are not allowed to go beyond the town wall. The two parallel narratives begin to bleed through [[HyperlinkStory into one another]] as the novel reaches its conclusion, exploring themes of identity and consciousness.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The End of the World plot]], leading to [[spoiler: a DownerEnding for the Hardboiled Wonderland plot]].
* BigEater: The librarian in Hard Boiled Wonderland is a thin woman who always seems to be hungry.
* {{Cyberpunk}}: Hard-Boiled Wonderland
* [[spoiler: DownerEnding]]

* EpiphanicPrison: The End of the World

* FateWorseThanDeath: Whether or not [[spoiler: The protagonist's eternal life in The End Of The World qualifies as this is handled ambiguously, and ultimately left to the reader to decide.]].

The first narrative tells the story of an unnamed protagonist in a Cyberpunk future Tokyo who is trained to be what is essentially a human data processor, whose subconscious holds an encryption key to prevent the information from falling into the wrong hands. The second narrative follows an individual who has just arrived in a strange walled town where the inhabitants, including the narrator, have been separated from their shadows and are not allowed to go beyond the town wall. The two parallel narratives begin to bleed through into one another as the novel reaches its conclusion, exploring themes of identity and consciousness.

* ScienceFictionVersusFantasy: Hardboiled Wonderland is science fiction, while The End of The World is fantasy.

''Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'' (世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド, ''Sekai no Owari to Hādo-Boirudo Wandārando'') is a 1985 novel by Japanese author HarukiMurakami. The story alternates between two narratives, "Hard-Boiled Wonderland" and "The End of the World", and has a strange, dreamlike quality running through both.

''Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'' (世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド) is a 1985 novel by Japanese author HarukiMurakami. The story alternates between two narratives, "Hard-Boiled Wonderland" and "The End of the World", and has a strange, dreamlike quality running through both.

''Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'' is a 1985 novel by Japanese author HarukiMurakami. The story alternates between two narratives, "Hard-Boiled Wonderland" and "The End of the World", and has a strange, dreamlike quality running through both.