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Dance dance dance by haruki murakami6/4/2023 ![]() But remnants of the old hotel may survive: a young clerk, Miss Yumiyoshi, relates her late-night encounter with an impenetrable darkness and musty smell on the 16th floor. ![]() When an assignment takes him to Sapporo, he decides to stay in the Dolphin-only to find it replaced by a new building. Like most Murakami protagonists, the divorced narrator is a savvy consumer of everything current from music to food, but he's also a realist-a journalist who writes unsigned features and describes his work as "shovelling snow-you do it because somebody's got to, not because it's fun." Emotionally numb, he is increasingly troubled by dreams in which former lover Kiki, who disappeared from the run-down Dolphin Hotel in Sapporo, where they'd been staying, seems to be calling him. Once again, Murakami (Hard-Boiled Wonderland, 1991) limns in meticulous detail the life of an ordinary young man irrevocably changed by a troubling encounter with another world-this time, in a sequel to his debut novel, A Wild Sheep Chase (1989). ![]()
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