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End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland
Blocked and die-cut slipcase
Printed endpapers
This Folio book is a collaboration between two remarkable artists. Series illustrator Daniel Liévano created the cover, slipcase and endpapers, playing on the novel's fascination with the subconscious mind and hidden realities. Inside, Yuko Shimizu has created ten vivid and wonderfully strange illustrations, including four awesome double-page spreads.
Blending mystery and science fiction with dreamlike fantasy, End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland is Murakami at his most inventive. It is a strange, hypnotic journey into the labyrinth of consciousness, identity, and the fragile boundaries of the human mind.
About the Illustrator
Yuko Shimizu is an award-winning New York-based Japanese artist, renowned for her intricate and expressive artwork. She has a MFA from the Illustration as Visual Essay Program offered by the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she now teaches in the BFA undergraduate department alongside working as a freelance artist. Her work has been published by Penguin, Time, Newsweek, the New York Times and the New Yorker; for Folio her work includes Japanese Tales (2018), The Great Gatsby (1925; Folio 2025) and End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland (1985; Folio 2026). Her accolades include multiple Gold and Silver Medals from the Society of Illustrators, along with recognition as one of Newsweek Japan’s ‘100 Japanese People the World Respects’.
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About the Illustrator
Yuko Shimizu is an award-winning New York-based Japanese artist, renowned for her intricate and expressive artwork. She has a MFA from the Illustration as Visual Essay Program offered by the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she now teaches in the BFA undergraduate department alongside working as a freelance artist. Her work has been published by Penguin, Time, Newsweek, the New York Times and the New Yorker; for Folio her work includes Japanese Tales (2018), The Great Gatsby (1925; Folio 2025) and End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland (1985; Folio 2026). Her accolades include multiple Gold and Silver Medals from the Society of Illustrators, along with recognition as one of Newsweek Japan’s ‘100 Japanese People the World Respects’.
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About the Illustrator
Yuko Shimizu is an award-winning New York-based Japanese artist, renowned for her intricate and expressive artwork. She has a MFA from the Illustration as Visual Essay Program offered by the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she now teaches in the BFA undergraduate department alongside working as a freelance artist. Her work has been published by Penguin, Time, Newsweek, the New York Times and the New Yorker; for Folio her work includes Japanese Tales (2018), The Great Gatsby (1925; Folio 2025) and End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland (1985; Folio 2026). Her accolades include multiple Gold and Silver Medals from the Society of Illustrators, along with recognition as one of Newsweek Japan’s ‘100 Japanese People the World Respects’.
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About the Illustrator
Yuko Shimizu is an award-winning New York-based Japanese artist, renowned for her intricate and expressive artwork. She has a MFA from the Illustration as Visual Essay Program offered by the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she now teaches in the BFA undergraduate department alongside working as a freelance artist. Her work has been published by Penguin, Time, Newsweek, the New York Times and the New Yorker; for Folio her work includes Japanese Tales (2018), The Great Gatsby (1925; Folio 2025) and End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland (1985; Folio 2026). Her accolades include multiple Gold and Silver Medals from the Society of Illustrators, along with recognition as one of Newsweek Japan’s ‘100 Japanese People the World Respects’.
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About the Illustrator
Yuko Shimizu is an award-winning New York-based Japanese artist, renowned for her intricate and expressive artwork. She has a MFA from the Illustration as Visual Essay Program offered by the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she now teaches in the BFA undergraduate department alongside working as a freelance artist. Her work has been published by Penguin, Time, Newsweek, the New York Times and the New Yorker; for Folio her work includes Japanese Tales (2018), The Great Gatsby (1925; Folio 2025) and End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland (1985; Folio 2026). Her accolades include multiple Gold and Silver Medals from the Society of Illustrators, along with recognition as one of Newsweek Japan’s ‘100 Japanese People the World Respects’.
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About the Author
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949. He grew up in Kobe and studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he later opened a jazz bar with his wife. In 1979 Murakami won the Gunzou Literature Prize for his first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, which was followed by Pinball, 1973 (1980) and A Wild Sheep Chase (1982, Folio 2024). Further renown followed with Norwegian Wood (1987; Folio 2022), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95, Folio 2021), Kafka on the Shore (2002; Folio 2021) and 1Q84 (2009–10). To date, Murakami’s work has been translated into more than 50 languages and his accolades include the World Fantasy Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, and the Jerusalem Prize.