After Dark
Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. They realise they've been acquainted through Eri, Mari's sister. Eri has become the classic myth - a sleeping beauty. But tonight a faint electrical crackle is...
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Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. They realise they've been acquainted through Eri, Mari's sister. Eri has become the classic myth - a sleeping beauty. But tonight a faint electrical crackle is perceptible, a hint of life flickers across the TV screen.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781846550478 (1846550475)
Publish date: June 7th 2007
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Japan,
Magical Realism,
Japanese Literature,
Surreal
I always have such a difficult time reviewing translated books. I usually don't know who to give credit to as far as the writing is concerned. This time around, not only is the writing fantastic, but the story is unlike anything else I've ever read. Although the book has been translated into English...
This is my first Murakami novel and I am hooked. Beautiful dialogue and cerebral characters. I am an instant fan.
After Dark is the second Haruki Murakami novel I've read, and it's a quick and brilliant read. It only took me the first chapter to completely grip me, and it never lost its hypnotizing hold on me. Even when I was unsure of how I felt after I was finished, I knew that I'd just finished a really stro...
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