In this propulsive novel by the author of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the
End of the World and The Elephant Vanishes, 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.