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Zusatztext “A world-class writer who takes big risks. . . . If Murakami is the voice of a generation then it is the generation of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo.” – The Washington Post Book World “A Japanese Phillip K. Dick with a sense of humor . . . [Murakami belongs] in the topmost ranks of writers of international stature.” – Newsday “Loaded with . . . mystery! mysticism! sex and rock ‘n’ roll. . . . Fast-moving and funny. . . . The narrative voice . . . pulls like a diesel.” – Los Angeles Times Book Review “An entertaining mix of modern sci-fi! nail-biting suspense! and ancient myth . . . a sometimes funny! sometimes sinister mystery spoof . . . [that] also aims at contemporary human concerns.” – Chicago Tribune “The plot is addictive.” – Detroit Free Press “There are novelists who dare to imagine the future! but none is as scrupulously! amusingly up-to-the-minute as . . . Murakami.” – Newsday “[ Dance! Dance! Dance ] has the fascination of a well-written detective story combined with a surreal dream narrative . . . full of appealing! well-developed characters.” – Philadelphia Inquirer “All the hallmarks of Murakami’s greatness are here: restless and sensitive characters. Disturbing shifts into altered reality! silky smooth turns of phrase and a narrative with all the momentum of a roller-coaster. . . . This is the sort of page-turner [Mishima} might have written.” – Publishers Weekly “[Murakami’s] writing injects the rock ‘n’ roll of everyday language into the exquisite silences of Japanese literary prose.” – Harper’s Bazaar Informationen zum Autor HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and one of the most recent of his many international honors is the Cino Del Duca World Prize, whose previous recipients include Jorge Luis Borges, Ismail Kadare, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Joyce Carol Oates. Alfred Birnbaum is an American translator who has translated works by Haruki Murakami, Miyabe Miyuki, and Natsuki Ikezawa. He has also edited the short story anthology Monkey Brain Sushi: New Tastes in Japanese Fiction . Birnbaum is a professor of creative writing and translation at Waseda University’s School of International Liberal Studies. Klappentext Dance Dance Dance-a follow-up to A Wild Sheep Chase-is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through Murakami's Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs. As Murakami's nameless protagonist searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, he is plunged into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread. In this propulsive novel, featuring a shabby but oracular Sheep Man, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work today fuses together science fiction, the hardboiled thriller, and white-hot satire.1 I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel. In these dreams, I'm there, implicated in some kind of ongoing circumstance. All indications are that I belong to this dream continuity. The Dolphin Hotel is distorted, much too narrow. It seems more like a long, covered bridge. A bridge stretching endlessly through time. And there I am, in the middle of it. Someone else is there too, crying. The hotel envelops me. I can feel its pulse, its heat. In dreams, I am part of the hotel. I wake up, but where? I don't just think this, I actually voice the question to myself: "Where am I?" As if I didn't know: I'm here. In my life. A feature of the world that is my existence. Not that I particularly recall ever having approved these matters, this condition, this state of affairs in which I feature. There might be a woman sleeping next to me. More often, I'm alone. Just me and the expressway that ru...
