***'Murakami emerges as a wholly original talent'. ***Bizarre, surreal and totally unpredictable, "Dance Dance Dance" is also a witty satire on the loss of the individual's identity, and will reaffirm Murakami's reputation as an extraordinary writer.' Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper. So from the urban haunts of Tokyo he returns to northern Hokkaido to the Dolphin Hotel, where the girl with the most beautiful ears in the world mysteriously vanished, only to find it unaccountably transformed. Yet in his dreams his ex-lover Kiki calls to him. Now in his mid-thirties, our hero lives in a world glittering with technology and success. Here in "Dance Dance Dance" Murakami continues the tale of an ordinary man on an extraordinary journey. ***'Haruki Murakami was hailed as "a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wise man" on publication of "A Wild Sheep Chase" in 1988, establishing him as Japan's bestselling novelist and a writer of international repute.
Very slight creasing at the edges of the dustwrapper. Very slight fading to the spine of the dustwrapper. ***In a very good illustrated dustwrapper which has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of £9.99. There is a publisher's 'Damaged' stamp to the bottom edge of the page block. With some lighter creasing to the edges also. There is also a crease to the lower corner of the front cover, and another to the top corner of the back cover. The covers are unmarked - however, there are reading creases to the spine which is also rolled from reading. ***Very good in matt black card covers with white titles to the spine and the front cover. ***Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum.
The book was published in hardback in the USA by Kodansha International, also in 1994. Published in the UK as a paperback original.
"1" on the publisher's copyright prelims-page: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.
First impression of the first UK edition with number-string sequence including the no.
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