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Reality bends all the more acutely with lack of sleep in this stunning novel from the master of the surreal.Eyes mark the shape of the cityThe midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel, and needs Mari's help.Meanwhile Mari's beautiful sister Eri lies in a deep, heavy sleep that is 'too perfect, too pure' to be normal; it has lasted for two months. But tonight as the digital clock displays 00:00, a hint of life flickers across the television screen in her room, even though it's plug has been pulled out.Strange nocturnal happenings, or a trick of the night?
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After Dark, Haruki Murakami
- Language
- Released
- 2007
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- Book condition
- Good
- Price
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- Title
- After Dark
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Haruki Murakami
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0099520869
- ISBN13
- 9780099520863
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Gifts for men, Literary Fiction, Japan, Violence, Japanese Literature, Magical Realism, Investigation, Prostitution
- First published
- 2004
- Original title
- Afutádáku
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- Reality bends all the more acutely with lack of sleep in this stunning novel from the master of the surreal.Eyes mark the shape of the cityThe midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel, and needs Mari's help.Meanwhile Mari's beautiful sister Eri lies in a deep, heavy sleep that is 'too perfect, too pure' to be normal; it has lasted for two months. But tonight as the digital clock displays 00:00, a hint of life flickers across the television screen in her room, even though it's plug has been pulled out.Strange nocturnal happenings, or a trick of the night?