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A review by sydsnot71
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
4.0
There's something about Murakami's world that I find fascinating. This is the seventh of his books I've read. It seems to be a sequel to Wild Sheep Chase.
The narrator, who remains nameless, embarks on an odd adventure which ends up involving an old school friend now actor; a thirteen-year-old girl with a psychic gift; a murder; an accidental death; suicide; love; grief and need. Plus The Sheep Man makes a return.
It's that odd mix of reality and unreality that marks Murakami's work. Indeed, weirdly having just read The Mabinogi by Matthew Francis, it felt like a similar world view reflected in that book. There are the world and the Unworld. People disappear. People are connected, even when they aren't necessarily in the same world.
I really liked it, but that's no surprise and I liked the ending. It felt right.
The narrator, who remains nameless, embarks on an odd adventure which ends up involving an old school friend now actor; a thirteen-year-old girl with a psychic gift; a murder; an accidental death; suicide; love; grief and need. Plus The Sheep Man makes a return.
It's that odd mix of reality and unreality that marks Murakami's work. Indeed, weirdly having just read The Mabinogi by Matthew Francis, it felt like a similar world view reflected in that book. There are the world and the Unworld. People disappear. People are connected, even when they aren't necessarily in the same world.
I really liked it, but that's no surprise and I liked the ending. It felt right.