After finishing his studies, Murakami opened the jazz bar 'Peter Cat' in Tokyo, which he ran from 1974-1982. His first job was in a record store (which is where one of his main characters, Toru Watanabe from 'Norwegian Wood:, works).

Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo where he met his wife, Yoko. Japanese literature often emphasises on beautiful language, which can result in stiff, restricted composition, while Murakami's style is relatively free and fluid. He grew up reading everything from the works of American writers such as Vonnegut and Brautigan, to Dostoyevsky and Balzac, and he is often distinguished from other Japanese writers for his western influences. Since his early years as a child Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly in terms of Western music and literature. His mother was a daughter of a merchant from Osaka. His father was a son of a Buddhist priest. Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 but spent most of his youth in Kobe. If Murakami is the voice of a generation, then it is the genera-tion of Thomas Pynchon and Don De- Lillo.' - 'Washington Post Book World' 'There are novelists who dare to imagine the future, but none is as scrupulously, amusingly up-to-the-minute as. 'The plot is addictive.' - 'Detroit Free Press' 'Dance, Dance, Dance' (the sequel to 'A wild sheep chase') is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs. In this propulsive novel by one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard-boiled thriller, and white-hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table.Īs he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged psychic and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man.

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