Dance Dance Dance

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, First Person Singular and The City and Its Uncertain Walls Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

If Raymond Chandler had lived long enough to see Blade Runner, he might have written something like Dance Dance Dance

1. 5/5

   Dansa dansa dansa

   Allt har en koppling till något annat. Och när man har tappat bort sina kopplingar till omvärlden, finns det självklart en växelcentral som kan koppla upp dig igen. Du behöver bara dansa vidare som du har gjort. Jag blir gång på gång förundrad över Murakamis sätt att få mig att känna igen mig i hans mystisistiska värld med udda personligheter, samtidigt som han lyckas hitta nya vinklar och nya intressanta, spännande historier att berätta.

   LK

   17 mars 2010