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Title	:	After Dark
Author	:	Haruki Murakami
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 191 pages
Published	:	May 8th 2007 by Knopf Publishing Group (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Magical Realism. Contemporary

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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. These “night people” 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 Eri’s slumber—mysteriously tied to the businessman plagued by the mark of his crime—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 agency—the interplay between self-expression and empathy, between the power of observation and the scope of compassion and love. Murakami’s trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.

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Original Title:	アフターダーク [Afutā dāku]
ISBN:	0307265838 (ISBN13: 9780307265838)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Eri Asai, Kaoru, Mari Asai, Takahashi Tetsuya, Shirakawa
Setting:	Tokyo(Japan)
Literary Awards:	International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2009)

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Original Review: March 8, 2011A Midwinter Night's Tale"After Dark" is probably the easiest Murakami novel to read. At 201 pages, it's not difficult to finish in one session.It's also close to what you would call "high concept" in the film industry. Its execution is not much more than its conception.All of the action takes place from 11:56pm to 6:52am on a midwinter night, more or less "after dark" when the days are shortest and the nights are longest.Hidden MeaningMurakami's writing is stripped

Just a comment:Murakamis "After Dark" is first and foremost a cinematic book. The story takes place in Tokyo, but as Borges once said (to Gabriel Nachmias): "Athens, New York, Londonall of them are the same, after dark". By the same token, we may say that After Dark is set during a single night in a post-industrial metropolis. One night is enough time for Murakami, probably because every night is the same in metropolis. Although Borges is not explicitly mentioned in the book, Murakami makes

Good ol' Murakami. Every time I read him, I feel my reasons for choosing a book as company over a real person, legitimized again. What is reading, but, a singular form of one-sided communication? An author sends us an encoded message, crafted with precision and a deep empathy arising out of their understanding of the world and humanity at large. And we, in turn, decode it and instantly feel a pull on the invisible umbilical cord linking us to this person we have never met and, possibly, will

This really isnt a novel to be rushed. This is a novel to be savoured and appreciated, and I think this quote here captures a large part of the book: "She reads with great concentration. Her eyes rarely move from the pages of the book- a thick hardback. A bookstore wrapper hides the title from us. Judging from her intent expression, the book might contain challenging subject matter. Far from skimming, she seems to be biting off and chewing it one line at a time. The words and the language seem

Really? I read it in half a day. I felt I got a lot from reading it straight through ( but maybe because when I put a book down, it stays down longer

After Dark is the first book by Haruki Murakami that Ive read. I was warned by many that I would not enjoy it. But theyre all delusional and wrong.After Dark isnt a traditional novel. It isnt a plot driven story and in fact, not much actually happens. After Dark takes place in Tokyo over a period of seven hours. It begins with Mari Asai, sitting and reading her book in a Dennys in the middle of the night. An old acquaintance sees her and reacquaints himself. The boy, Takahashi, eats at Maris

A delightful excursion into the mentality and rhythms of night in the city and the perspectives it gives to the meaning of our daytime lives. This 2007 novel contains the essence of Murikamis weird and wonderful ways in a pure and restrained form. We fly around observing a set of characters as with an invisible camera, neutral and unjudging. Time ticks down explicitly through the night though the pacing of life at night has a timeless quality. The characters actions are muted and reflective,