Dance, Dance, Dance -- A Series of Essays by Haruki Murakami

Author: [Japanese] Murakami Haruki, translated by Lin Shaohua
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: This is another important novel by Murakami Haruki published shortly after Norwegian Wood. Six skeletons are arranged in a room that is both real and illusory. "My" old friend "Rat" has died during his adventure of searching for sheep. "I" finally finds a kindred spirit among his old classmate, Gozen, but this film star, who has been packaged by the entertainment industry and suffers from split personality, has strangled two high-end escort girls one after another and has himself drowned in a luxury car, a Maserati. The lonely girl "Snow" and her proud mother "Rain" can still barely survive in this crazy world, but "Rain's" guardian angel, Dik, cannot escape a mysterious car accident either. After spending a terrifying day accompanied by death, "I" finally finds a sense of security with the hotel waitress Yumegi and has a concrete plan to live a quiet life in a quiet city. But who does the sixth skeleton really mean? "I" is still trapped in the death house. "A highly developed capitalist society," Murakami Haruki repeated this sentence countless times—he is trying to find the source of all these deaths and crimes.