Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

We all want to understand why we are born, live on Earth, and then die and disappear. And it’s not worth blaming the sincere desire to find answers to these questions. Still, this is precisely where you can “press the wrong button,” make a fatal mistake. Reality begins to distort, and you suddenly notice that the promised land has turned into something else…

“The Promised Land” is perhaps the sharpest and most controversial book by the outstanding Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, exploring the nature of evil in the modern world.