Dance! Dance! Dance!

Author: Haruki Murakami
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: This is another significant novel published by Haruki Murakami shortly after Norwegian Wood. Six white skeletons are arranged in a room that seems both real and surreal, a house of death. "My" old friend 'Rat' has already died on a sheep-hunting adventure. "I" finally finds a kindred spirit among former classmates, Kita, but this movie star, packaged by the entertainment industry and suffering from mental breakdown, has strangled two high-end escort girls one after another and has himself drowned in a luxury sports car, a "Maserati." The lonely girl "Snow" and the overly proud mother "Rain," though they can still barely survive in this crazy world, Rain's guardian angel Dik is also unable to escape a mysterious car accident. After spending a terrifying day accompanied by death, "I" finally finds a sense of security with the hotel maid Yumi, and also has a concrete plan for living a quiet life in a quiet city. But who does the sixth white skeleton really mean? "I" is still trapped in the house of death. "A highly developed capitalist society," Murakami repeated these words countless times. He wanted to find the source of all these deaths and crimes.