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Published on Jan 31, 1995 | 416 Pages
Dance Dance Dance—a follow-up to A Wild Sheep Chase—is a tense, mesmerizing, and often hilarious ride through Murakami’s vividly rendered Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.
As Haruki Murakami’s nameless protagonist searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, he is plunged into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread. In this propulsive novel, the narrator navigates a series of chilling encounters: a stay at the enigmatic Dolphin Hotel, which is altogether different to his earlier memory of it; the return of the shabby but oracular Sheep Man; and the narrator’s chaotic search for Kiki, a long-ago girlfriend who has disappeared. In these pages, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work today fuses together science fiction, the hardboiled thriller, and white-hot satire.
As Haruki Murakami’s nameless protagonist searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, he is plunged into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread. In this propulsive novel, the narrator navigates a series of chilling encounters: a stay at the enigmatic Dolphin Hotel, which is altogether different to his earlier memory of it; the return of the shabby but oracular Sheep Man; and the narrator’s chaotic search for Kiki, a long-ago girlfriend who has disappeared. In these pages, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work today fuses together science fiction, the hardboiled thriller, and white-hot satire.
Author
Haruki Murakami
HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and one of the most recent of his many international honors is the Cino Del Duca World Prize, whose previous recipients include Jorge Luis Borges, Ismail Kadare, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Joyce Carol Oates.
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