I read somewhere that the first thing you should do when you finish reading a Murakami novel is to start it again, and on second listening, Dance Dance Dance delivers up a wealth of detail, the significance of which was lost on me first time around. All these (and more - but avoiding spoilers) woven into a compelling narrative. Several familiar themes appear - a nameless first-person narrating protagonist who is a divorced man in his 30s, a precocious teenaged-girl, beautiful but mysterious women, intense darkness, trans-muralisation - oh and a dead cat makes a brief appearance too. Dance Dance Dance The Elephant Vanishes Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World A Wild Sheep Chase a novel by HARUKI MURAKAMI translated by Alfred Birnbaum Vintage International 3-4 Vintage Books A Division of Random House, Inc. Murakami's genius is to make the extraordinary seem commonplace. Read about the narrator's interactions with the various. If you've enjoyed any of Murakami's other books, Dance Dance Dance will not disappoint, and if you haven't read/listened to any of his other books, this is as good a place to start as any. Haruki Murakami's ''Dance Dance Dance'' reveals concepts of life, death, and dimensions as seen through the narrator's experiences. One is the publication, in Japan, of his latest novel, Machi to Sono Futashika na Kabe. Each character is distinctly voiced and immediately recognised whenever they appear. For enthusiasts of Haruki Murakami, last month brought two major events in two different countries. Rupert Degas' voice acting is superb, and frankly with the number of speaking characters in a Murakami book, anything less than superb would not deliver the convincing portrayals that Mr Degas does. - YouTube 0:00 / 11:02 Murakami, Dance dance dance. What about Rupert Degas’s performance did you like? Brilliant - a Murakami 'Masterpiece of weirdness'

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