After Dark
of Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (Translator)
Description
A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakamiâs masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore.At its center are two sistersâEri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Dennyâs toward people whose lives are radically alien to her own: a jazz trombonist who claims theyâve met before, a burly female âlove hotelâ manager and her maid staff, and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman. These ânight peopleâ are haunted by secrets and needs that draw them together more powerfully than the differing circumstances that might keep them apart, and it soon becomes clear that Eriâs slumberâmysteriously tied to the businessman plagued by the mark of his crimeâwill either restore or annihilate her.After Dark moves from mesmerizing drama to metaphysical speculation, interweaving time and space as well as memory and perspective into a seamless exploration of human agencyâthe interplay between self-expression and empathy, between the power of observation and the scope of compassion and love. Murakamiâs trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 191 pages
- Publisher Knopf Publishing Group
- Publication Date May 8th 2007
- First Publication 10/28/04
- Language English
- ISBN 9780307265838
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Tokyo (Japan)']
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