After Dark

After Dark
- 9 x 6 i nches 191 pages
A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakamiâ€™s masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore.

At its center are two sistersâ€”Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Dennyâ€™s toward people whose lives are radically alien to her own: a jazz trombonist who claims theyâ€™ve met before, a burly female â€œlove hotelâ€ manager and her maid staff, and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman. These â€œnight 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 Eriâ€™s slumberâ€”mysteriously tied to the businessman plagued by the mark of his crimeâ€”will 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 agencyâ€”the interplay between self-expression and empathy, between the power of observation and the scope of compassion and love. Murakamiâ€™s trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2007-05-08
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780307265838

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2007-05-08
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780307265838

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