Fantasy.
Fiction.
Literature.
HTML:A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami�s masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore. At its center are two sisters�Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny�s toward people whose lives are radically alien to her own: a jazz trombonist who claims they�ve met before, a burly female �love hotel� manager and her maid staff, and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman.
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 agency. Murakami�s trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.… (more) |
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