Synopsis
Sexual violence, metaphysical dread and hard-boiled detection - welcome again to the parallel universe of Haruki Murakami. High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic thirteen year-old drop-out with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beachcombing poet, an uptight hotel clerk. Another man caught in the web of this maythem. Combining this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose it is an assault on all the senses, a murder mystery that is also philosophical speculation, and a dark fable of advanced capitalism.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- ISBN: 9781860469534
- Number of pages: 400
- Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 26 mm
- Weight: 285g
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Dance, Dance, Dance
The sequel to Wild Sheep ChasePicking up a while after the events of the Sheep ChaseI absolutely love this book, I was enraptured! The story is charged ful... READ MORE
Encapturing
Loved this , just couldn't put it down , I read it within a week
Murakami is one of the greats
Mixes the mundane with the mysterious, Classic Murakami
Having read many of Murakami’s novels, i was delighted to discover one I had never heard of before. True to style, the author masterfully merges the mundan... READ MORE
A breath of fresh air
It's a great story filled with a realistic approach to magical and mysterious settings in daily life as they make for a rather chaotic approach to the stat... READ MORE