Dance Dance Dance: A Novel - Hardcover

Murakami, Haruki

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 4770016832 ISBN 13: 9784770016836

Publisher: Kodansha USA Inc, 1994

Synopsis

Haunted by the sound of someone weeping softly for him, a man in his mid-thirties returns to northern Hokkaido to find her. By the author of A Wild Sheep Chase. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

In this propulsive novel by the author of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and The Elephant Vanishes, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard-boiled thriller, and white-hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table.
As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls; plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged psychic; and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man. Dance Dance Dance is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.

From the Back Cover:

As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls; plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged psychic; and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man. 'Dance Dance Dance' is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kodansha USA Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 4770016832
• ISBN 13: 9784770016836
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352