Collection of Haruki Murakami: Dance! Dance! Dance!

Author: [Japanese] Murakami Haruki, translated by Lin Shaohua
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: Six skeletons are arranged in a room that is both real and illusory, a house of death. "My" old friend "Rat" has already died in his sheep-searching adventure. "I" finally finds a kindred spirit in his old classmate, Gotanda, but this film star, who has been packaged by the entertainment industry and is mentally unstable, ends up strangling two high-end escort girls one after another and also driving his luxury Maserati into the sea to his death. The lonely girl "Snow" and her proud mother "Rain" can still barely survive in this crazy world, but "Rain's" guardian deity, Dicky, also cannot escape a mysterious car accident. After spending a terrifying day accompanied by death, "I" finally finds a sense of security with the hotel maid 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 house of death. "A highly developed capitalist society," Murakami Haruki repeats this phrase countless times. Is he trying to find the source of all this death and evil? This book is Murakami Haruki's important long novel published immediately after "Norwegian Wood." Six skeletons are arranged in a room that is both real and illusory. "My" old friend "Rat" has already died in his sheep-searching adventure. "I" finally finds a kindred spirit in his old classmate, Gotanda, but this film star, who has been packaged by the entertainment industry and is mentally unstable, ends up strangling two high-end escort girls one after another and also driving his luxury Maserati into the sea to his death. The lonely girl "Snow" and her proud mother "Rain" can still barely survive in this crazy world, but "Rain's" guardian deity, Dicky, also cannot escape a mysterious car accident. After spending a terrifying day accompanied by death, "I" finally finds a sense of security with the hotel maid 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 house of death. "A highly developed capitalist society," Murakami Haruki repeats this phrase countless times. Is he trying to find the source of all this death and evil?