Audition
1997 • 208 pages

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15

In this thriller from the best-selling Japanese author, a widower stages an open casting call with his filmmaker friend to attract the perfect wife and is taken in by a striking young ballerina with a mysterious past. Original.

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A lot of lead up for a pretty lack luster ending, so much of this was buildup so I was expecting a lot of the ending but it was over very quickly and without much of a bang. As always Murakami's wring style is brilliant, it's the plot that was lacking here for me.

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Hunting up a bride
she's lovely, so attentive
he's heels over head.

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