本書是一部語不驚人死不休的科幻小說。在作者幻想的世界裡，巨型企業控制了整個社會運作：政府不再徵稅，上班族直接冠上雇主公司的名字作為姓氏，維持治安的工作完全由公開上市的保全公司負責，除非能找到公民付帳，否則政府絕不主動偵查犯罪—這是一個自由市場機制獲得全面勝利的恐怖世界。

本書是一部語不驚人死不休的科幻小說。在作者幻想的世界裡，巨型企業控制了整個社會運作：政府不再徵稅，上班族直接冠上雇主公司的名字作為姓氏，維持治安的工作完全由公開上市的保全公司負責，除非能找到公民付帳，否則政府絕不主動偵查犯罪—這是一個自由市場機制獲得全面勝利的恐怖世界。

High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout 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 and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and...(展开全部)

This wildly propulsive novel by the acclaimed author of A Wild Sheep Chase focuses on a man searching for a former lover who vanished mysteriously from a seedy hotel. But each new clue to Kiki's whereabouts leads him deeper into a labryrinth of physical violence and metaphysical dread. "A world-class writer."--Washington Post Book World

High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout 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 and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and...(展开全部)

This wildly propulsive novel by the acclaimed author of A Wild Sheep Chase focuses on a man searching for a former lover who vanished mysteriously from a seedy hotel. But each new clue to Kiki's whereabouts leads him deeper into a labryrinth of physical violence and metaphysical dread. "A world-class writer."--Washington Post Book World