Flybird's Nest

Author : Haruki Murakami  Year of Published : 1988 Series : The Rat (#4) Blurbs: High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout 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 and 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 . 'If Raymond Chandler had lived long enough to see  Blade Runner , he might have written something like  Dance Dance Dance'   Observer 'Mr Murakami writes metaphysical Far Easterns with a Western beat'  New York Times 'An entertaining adventure that takes us to the frozen north of Japan to the dark, damp corners of the imagination... Reading  Dance Dance Dance  is a bit like being taken blindfold on a joy-ride'  Independent 'Murakami reveals