Murakami's abilities as a seasoned novelist ("A Wild Sheep Chase," "Norwegian Wood," "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World") that all of his female characters stand out as individuals. She behaves like Eloise at the Plaza and thinks like an unblemished Lolita. Yuki almost steals the novel away from the protagonist because she's so wise, sad and witty. His protagonist is a 34-year-old freelance writer at loose ends who doesn't need much money and is always ready for new adventures.Īlong the way, the freelancer encounters various women: dream girls, nice girls, call girls and a mature, smart-alecky 13-year-old named Yuki. In the novel, the author takes the reader on a business-class trip across two cultures, from Japan to Hawaii and back home again. "Dance Dance Dance" is the latest and liveliest example of Mr. Murakami's mysterious plots and original characters are very much his own creation. True, in his fiction there are echoes of Raymond Chandler, John Irving and Raymond Carver, but Mr. His rapid-fire style and American tastes seem deliberately designed to break any possible connection to traditional novelists from his own country like Kobo Abe, Yukio Mishima or Yasunari Kawabata, Japan's only Nobel laureate in literature. Haruki Murakami, Japan's most popular novelist, writes metaphysical Far Easterns with a Western beat. Dance Dance Dance By Haruki Murakami Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum.
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