num_pages: 393
description: 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.
language: English
title: Dance, Dance, Dance
titlecomplete: Dance, Dance, Dance
characters: The Sheep Man, Yomiyoshi, Kiki, Yuki
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Asia, Mystery, Japan, Japanese Literature, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Fantasy
ratings_count: 85334
places: Tokyo, Honolulu, Hawaii, Sapporo
series: The Rat
publisher: Penguin