After Dark

Author(s): Haruki Murakami

Modern & Contemporary Literature | Fiction in translation

"Eyes mark the shape of the cityi>he 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, even though it's plug has been pulled out. Strange nocturnal happenings, or a trick of the night?"


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Reality bends all the more acutely with lack of sleep in this stunning new novel from the master of the surreal.

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949. Following the publication of his first novel in Japanese in 1979, he sold the jazz bar he ran with his wife and became a full-time writer. It was with the publication of Norwegian Wood - which has to date sold more than 4 million copies in Japan alone - that the author was truly catapulted into the limelight. Known for his surrealistic world of mysterious (and often disappearing) women, cats, earlobes, wells, Western culture, music and quirky first-person narratives, he is now Japan's best-known novelist abroad. Nine novels, three short story collections and one work of non-fiction are currently available in English translation.

General Fields

  • : 9780099506249
  • : Random House UK
  • : Vintage
  • : 0.155
  • : June 2008
  • : 199mm X 132mm X 14mm
  • : June 2008
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Haruki Murakami
  • : Haruki Murakami
  • : Illustrations
  • : Illustrations
  • : FA
  • : FA
  • : 208
  • : 208
  • : oc2008021338
  • : oc2008021338
  • : very good
  • : very good
  • : 895.6/35
  • : 895.6/35
  • : English
  • : English
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback