Dance Dance Dance

High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advenced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of charactes with Murakami`s idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance Dance Dance.

`If Raymond Chandler had lived long enough to see Blade Runner, he might have written something like Dance Dance Dance

- Observer

`Mr Murakami writes metaphysical Far Easterns with a Western beat`

- New York Times

`An entertaining adventure that takes us to the frozen notrh of Japan and to the dark, damp corners of the imaginaiton... Reading Dance Dance Dance is a bit like being taken blindfold on a joyride.`

- Independent

`Murakami reveals throughout, along with turn-on-a-sixpence plotting and joyous satirical energy, an old-fashioned interest in creating a corps of living characters: exotic and eccentric, but alwalys real`

- Scotsman