Dance Dance Dance

Haruki Murakami

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jan 31, 1995 - Fiction - 416 pages

Dance Dance Dance—a follow-up to A Wild Sheep Chase—is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through Murakami’s Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.

As 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, featuring a shabby but oracular Sheep Man, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work today fuses together science fiction, the hardboiled thriller, and white-hot satire.

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User Review  - Ken-Me-Old-Mate - LibraryThing

This one really grabbed me, it is a strange mix of things that you can never second guess. There were a few times when I thought I had skipped a chapter but instead it was because I thought I understood what was happening. Brilliant.

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I continue to read Haruki Murakami with absolute delight. This is heralded as a sequel of his "Chasing wild sheep" It is helpful to read "Sheep", but it is not necessary as Murakami provides enough ...

About the author

Haruki Murakami is a best-selling Japanese writer. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Jerusalem Prize, among others. Murakami's fiction is humorous and surreal, focusing on themes of alienation and loneliness. He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature. The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his works and achievements. Murakami is the author of 1Q84, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Men Without Women and many more. 

Alfred Birnbaum is an American translator who has translated works by Haruki Murakami, Miyabe Miyuki, and Natsuki Ikezawa. He has also edited the short story anthology Monkey Brain Sushi: New Tastes in Japanese Fiction. Birnbaum is a professor of creative writing and translation at Waseda University’s School of International Liberal Studies.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Dance Dance Dance; Vintage International
• Author: Haruki Murakami
• Translated by: Alfred Birnbaum
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995
• ISBN: 0679753796, 9780679753797
• Length: 416 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Magical Realism; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery