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Tokyo, New York, and uncharted territory of the imagination provide the setting for this remarkable, kaleidoscopic novel of life in the postmodern age. Start with an eccentric heiress in search of a son missing for twenty-five years. Add a detective team of beauty queen-turned-stock analyst and neurotic writer-turned-houseboy. Toss in a latter-day Fagin winsomely raising his orphans to be rented to needy adults; season with a gay man from New York with Oriental tastes. Combine with experience, speculation, and dreams. Then top off with Matthew, handsome, telepathic, free from convention, heredity, and home. Matthew is the dream messenger. He visits people's dreams, bringing comfort and wisdom to the troubled; in his own dreams he finds companionship and peace. In waking hours, he is a "professional friend", offering love to women and men who will pay. But Matthew is no ordinary hustler; he is a purveyor of truths unencumbered by parents, society, and nations. Contrary to popular assumptions, such truths transcend their purchase by money. Mixing fantasy with harsh fact, tantalizing with its intellect and sexuality, Dream Messenger introduces to the West a truly fresh, bold, international voice from Japan.
- Sales Rank: #809281 in Books
- Published on: 1994-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .88" h x 8.00" w x 5.25" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 293 pages
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Great author, fair book
By Sean Hamlin
I have read much of Shimada's work in Japanese, mostly short-stories, and I have to say that the English translation of Dream Messenger falls flat. Philip Gabriel's translation captures Shimada's unique cadence only very infrequently, losing much of what makes Shimada's work a joy to read. To Gabriel's credit, Shimada tends to twist and contort Japanese grammer frequently, and he often turns traditional idioms on their heads. His metaphors, too, are very original and very provocative in Japanese. Unfortunately, very little of this translates well into English, and I don't envy Gabriel his job of having to try.
Aside from the difficulties of the translation, Shimada is, I feel, a much better short-story writer. His quirky style tends to lose steam in longer works, leaving you, by the end of the narrative, grasping for something concrete to wrap your mind around.
I was disappointed by Dream Messenger, considering how much I enjoyed his other works (the reason why I couldn't stand giving him any less than 3 stars in this review). With the right work and the right translation, Shimada could easily be ranked alongside Murakami Haruki. Unfortunately, this is the only piece of Shimada's that has been translated into English thus far. Maybe Gabriel will do better with some of Shimada's short-stories.
Unless I beat him to it...;)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Haruki Murakami Lite
By A Customer
I definitely enjoyed this book for a lot of the same reasons that I enjoy Haruki Murakami's. It resembles Murakami's work in that it is set in an international, pop-culture kind of world, a world that makes as much sense to American readers as it does to Japanese readers. And it is a fast, fun, read, while at the same time at least touching on some more serious themes. However, my overall feeling about it is that it lacked the organization and cohesiveness of Murakami's works. It left a lot more just kind of hanging, and it left a lot of interesting ideas only half-developed. Overall though, definitely worth checking out.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Dream Gigolo
By James W. Fonseca
As I read this, I kept thinking that surely Haruki Murakami was influenced by this writer. This book was published in Japan in 1989, before most of Murakami’s most famous novels were published, and it has quite a bit of the magical realism we have come to expect from Murakami. In any case here’s the basic story: a three-year old Japanese kid is kidnapped away from his mother by his father and taken to New York. But the father dies almost immediately and the kid ends up being raised as a foster child by a loving American couple, a social worker and a child psychologist, who have the idea of “renting out” kids to parents who have lost their own children. Thirty years later, the Japanese mother, now getting on in years, hires a woman as a detective and sends her to New York to find her long-lost son, who may now actually be living in Japan.
As the lost son is tracked down, little by little, we learn from people who knew him in the past or who know him now, just how strange he is. Loving and caring but strange. He’s a free spirit, to say the least; a kind of physical and mental bisexual gigolo who “loans” himself out to people who need his help. He has an alter-ego that he carries on his back who communicates with other such alter-egos and he has the ability to enter other people’s dreams. (Maybe the primary message here is that you don’t want to be raised by a social worker and a child psychologist --- j.k.)
The back-and-forth between New York and Tokyo provides a format for the narrator and the characters to comment on American vs. Japanese culture. The author seems to feel that Japanese culture is somehow inferior and that the Japanese don’t even do a very good job at imitating American/Western culture. So we get lines like “The Japanese have been trying their best to change into Caucasians, but they can’t seem to get it right. They’re like those foxes in fairy tales who change into humans but still have an ugly tail sticking out.” More than one character rants about the need to create a revolution or to “destroy Tokyo.” All in all, a pretty good read and I liked it better than some of Murakami’s work. But my favorite Japanese read of late that I have reviewed remains “Out” by a female author, Natsuo Kirino.
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