After dark

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… (more)