Details Books Toward After Dark
| 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) |
Haruki Murakami
Hardcover | Pages: 191 pages Rating: 3.7 | 100299 Users | 6928 Reviews
Present Epithetical Books After Dark
| Title | : | After Dark |
| Author | : | Haruki Murakami |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary 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 |
Rendition Concering Books After Dark
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.
Rating Epithetical Books After Dark
Ratings: 3.7 From 100299 Users | 6928 ReviewsCriticize Epithetical Books After Dark
(My full review of this book is larger than GoodReads' word-count limitations. Find it at the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com].)"You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a6.8.194.75/5starsYeah, I had to drop this .25 stars mostly because Takahashi is the most ANNOYING character ever. But this reread I discovered SO many new things and came up with so many new theories. I talked about them all in my vlog for this that I will post ehre when its up because I'm way too tired to keep typing. still amazing, still loved it, but damn takahashi is obnoxious how did i not remember him?9.24.165/5starsHoly shit this was INCREDIBLE. Give me a few minutes to fully put my
Ah me I love Murakami. This is only the fifth book of his I've read but they never disappoint. I started with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which I read when I lived in Japan. Seemed fitting. Followed up with A Wild Sheep Chase, Dance Dance Dance and Underground, a non-fiction book where he collected and told the stories of survivors from the Tokyo Subway gas attack. I have more on my shelf. I plan to read every single book of his.After Dark is definitely one of his more approachable books. It was
Another night has passed by and the day is upon us, telling from the light it is still early morning and from our viewpoint we are looking down on a city, we start to float towards a neighbourhood and pick out a house at random. We are now in the back garden of the property where two cats roam and can hear the sound of birds singing in the trees, we move in the direction of a second story window where the curtains are still closed, we enter. The first thing we notice is a man sat up in bed who
Murakami haunts me. His words. The images he uses to convey his message. His characters. Blended together, these elements make for a surreal reading experience that is both fantastic and illusory. On one page you have a straight forward narrative of life during the wee hours of the night in Japan. But on the other page, a journey is taking place. Where this journey will end is anyone's guess. From a sleeping sister to a brothel to a kid that plays in a jazz band to a woman searching for her
A shorter book by Murakami which is why I may have enjoyed it more than some of his other tomes.Mari is planning to spend the night in Tokyo reading a book and slowly drinking coffee. She becomes the pivot in the book around which the mundane is woven with the unusual.She helps a Chinese prostitute, becomes friendly with the female staff of a love hotel, has deep and meaningful conversations and strikes up a friendship with a trombone playing student. Mari is avoiding her home as her sister Eri,
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
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