Sexual violence, metaphysical dread and hard-boiled detection - welcome again to the parallel universe of Haruki Murakami.
High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic thirteen-year-old drop-out 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. Another man caught in the web of this mayhem.
Combining this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose is an assault on all the senses, a murder mystery that is also philosophical speculation and a dark fable of advanced capitalism.
