Dance Dance Dance

In this propulsive novel one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction the hard-boiled thriller and white-hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table. As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged psychic and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man. Dance Dance Dance is a tense poignant and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.