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Dance Dance Dance

by Haruki Murakami · 1988

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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 advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance Dance Dance.

Genre
magical realismmagical realismMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thismysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thisromanceromanceMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisJapanJapanMore like thisLess of thisAsiaAsiaMore like thisLess of this
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intrigueintrigueMore like thisLess of thisdarkdarkMore like thisLess of thisaction packedaction packedMore like thisLess of thisintenseintenseMore like thisLess of thissadsadMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 393 pages

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