Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

The Kodansha International edition of 1991 (New York) is the first edition in English; the UK edition (Hamish Hamilton, London) followed, also in 1991. The Japanese original, Sekai no owari to hado-boirudo wandarando, was published in 1985 and won the Tanizaki Prize that year. It is Murakami's fourth novel and the second published in English for the trade (after A Wild Sheep Chase).