Dance Dance Dance

Key Features

• Murakami's magnum opus, the trilogy 1Q84, was published by Harvill Secker in 2011 to rapturous reviews and his best-ever hardback sales: both volumes were Sunday Times bestsellers and combined hardback sales are nearly at 180,000 copies.
• Murakami's entire backlist will be rejacketed in a new iconic, witty and collectable series style to coincide with the publication of 1Q84 in Vintage
• Murakami is an international phenomenon: beloved in his native Japan, he is a bestseller the world over - his books are published in 45 territories, in 42 languages
• Dance Dance Dance is the sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase

About the Book: Dance Dance Dance

An assault on the senses, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting from the window of a sports car.

High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance Dance Dance.

About the Author: Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. He is the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction. His works include Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, After Dark and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. His work has been translated into more than forty languages, and the most recent of his many international honours is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J.M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V.S. Naipaul.

Reviews

'If Raymond Chandler had lived long enough to see Blade Runner, he might have written something like Dance Dance Dance' - Observer

'An entertaining mix of modern sci-fi, nail-biting suspense and ancient myth ... a sometimes funny, sometimes sinister mystery spoof, but like all good postmodern fiction, it also aims at contemporary human concerns, philosophical as well as literary' - Chicago Tribune

'An entertaining adventure that takes us to the frozen north of Japan, to Hawaii and to the dark, damp corners of the imagination ... Reading Dance Dance Dance is a bit like being taken blindfold on a joy-ride' - Independent

'Mr Murakami writes metaphysical Far Easterns with a Western beat ... there are echoes of Raymond Chandler, John Irving and Raymond Carver, but Mr. Murakami's mysterious plots and original characters are very much his own creation' - New York Times