Dance Dance Dance

High-class girls billed to Mastercard. A physic 13-year-old drop-out 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 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. It is an assault on the senses, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting from the window of a sports car.