"Dance! Dance! Dance! is regarded as the sister story of "Norwegian Wood". The novel depicts the life of a divorced man, showing the helplessness and delusion of urbanites under the highly developed capitalist civilization. A 34-year-old divorced man has a strange and erotic encounter at the Dolphin Hotel in Beihai City, where he meets his high school classmate, Gotanda, who has become a superstar in film and television. He calls two high-class call girls. The girl, Mimi, is so elegant and elegant that she can "awaken a man's eternal dream". A few days later, she was strangled to death in a high-class hotel. On the day after I was summoned, a big star, Gotanda, was killed in a Maserati car in the sea. I left Tokyo and returned to Hokkaido to find a sequel to the previous story.

Works in the last ten years:

1999 50 years old In April, "Sputnik Lovers" was published by Kodansha. May, translation of Grace Paley's Dramatic Changes in the Last Moment, printed by Literary Spring and Autumn. Traveled to Scandinavia for two weeks.

August-December, the "After the Earthquake Series" was published: first, "UFO Landing in Kushiro," second, "Landscape with an Iron," third, "Children of God Dance," fourth, "Journey to Thailand," and fifth, "Frog-kun Saves Tokyo. The fifth, "Frog-kun Saves Tokyo" (in the August-December 1999 issue of Shinchou).

2000, age 51 In February, a collection of short stories, God's Children All Dancing, was printed by Shinchosha.

2001, age 52 Illustrated biography collection "Jazz Groupie 2", essay collection "Murakami Radio", and illustrated essay collection "Lightness of Being" were published.

2002, age 53 The full-length novel Kafka by the Sea is printed, and the illustrated travelogue If Our Language Were Whiskey is published.

2003, age 54 A collection of E-MAIL newsletters, Teenage Kafka, is published.

2004, age 55 The full-length novel After Dark is printed.

2005, age 56 Illustrated novel "Strange Library" is published.

2006, age 57 The short story collection "Tokyo Chitanshu" is published.

2007, 58 years old In October, an autobiographical collection of essays, "When I Talk About Running, What I Talk About," was printed by Literary Spring and Autumn Society.

2009, age 60, the novel 1Q84, published by BOOK1 BOOK2, won the Jerusalem Literary Prize. At the height of the new Israeli-Palestinian conflict, all the forces in favor of Palestine tried to discourage him, but after careful consideration, he finally traveled to Israel to receive the award, and delivered an acceptance speech on the theme of the freedom of the human soul. "Between a hard, high wall and an egg that crashes into it, I will always be on the side of the egg." The move made Murakami famous and catapulted him into the role of a model pacifist.

2010, age 61 Long story "1Q84" published by BOOK3