haruki murakami dance dance dance quotes

You gotta dance.” – quipped the sheep man. Dance your best, like your life depended on it. As long as the music plays…Dance, it’s the only way. If you do that, we might be able to do something for you. “Dancing is everything, Dance in tip-top form. I somehow relate the book title as a reminder to the narrator’s mundane existence of a life and remember an advice that says: “Dance as if no one is watching, and dance as if you don’t care” that life is short, dance as if it is your last. He plods along and through a series of strange events he met this motley crew of characters. not a great job but someone has to do it. Not exactly a famed writer but he describes his job as “shoveling snow” and “shoveling cultural snow” one i.e. 34-year-old, recently divorced and severed ties from his business partner, he is a food review journalist. The protagonist is somewhat of a drifter. One day he came across a scene in a movie and he thought he caught a glimpse of Kiki and his high school classmate Gotanda, a matinee idol who only plays the role of dentists and teachers, who is recently divorced but still seeing his ex-wife. Ame’s has a boyfriend David who was a Vietnam war veteran, now a poet and has only one arm and makes the best sandwiches. Yuki came from a dysfunctional family of eccentric photographer of a mother, Ame and a rich, untalented writer of a father.

Along the way, he strikes up a friendship with the receptionist, Yumiyoshi and become a reluctant companion of a clairvoyant 13-year-old girl called Yuki. 🙂 In Sapporo, the Dolphin hotel is not what it used to be, it is taken over by a bigger company and has become more luxurious and up-market. The protagonist, whose name is not mentioned, is the same one that appears in The Wild Sheep Chase, for some reason felt the urge to revisit the Dolphin Hotel again to look for Kiki, his girlfriend who has a pair of breathtaking beautiful ears.

It is difficult to write about a book you have finished awhile ago and it is even hard to write a review about Murakami’s books without sounding like a sycophant or Murakami Groupie that goes on and on to say how fantastic his books are… but the truth is : I love this one!!!! 😀

Haruki murakami dance dance dance quotes