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After Dark
 

After Dark

by Haruki Murakami


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... (read more)

Top tags: fiction,  japan,  murakami,  contemporary fiction,  japanese fiction (all tags)

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Liked It

Ginger M
  • Rated 4 stars

“Very different from my usual fare; I rather like the story line though it is oddly worded - which I feel is due to it being a translation. It is about a girl and her family. Her sister is a very lovely and vane young woman - while she is sleeping a man is watching from the TV which is unplugged!

The other sister goes into a public bathroom and looks at herself in the mirror; after she leaves her image is still there looking out at the bathroom. Like I said it is really weird.
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Didn’t Like It

Amanda
  • Rated 2 stars

“Okay read, a bit of a lazy feel in a modern mood. Characters seem kind of unreal but I enjoyed them anyway kind of. Some bits of insight mixed in.”

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Community:
  • Rated 3.53405 stars
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  • Rated 0 stars
  

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  • Ginger M

    ginger m said:

    “xoo98, I don't know, but my copy is shiny so at least this one is. I know I've read another of Murakami's books, but I can't remember if the cover was shiny or not.
    Ginger”

    posted Tuesday, June 10 2008
  • daredevilrash

    daredevilrash said:

    “I think it's too short. It's not the typical Murakami novel one might expect. I personally hate that this book has too much advertisements -the cigarettes, milk, etcetera. I feel that this one has been butchered, probably by the translator. But it is still evident that this one is a Murakami.”

    posted Sunday, April 20 2008
  • Dan A

    dan a said:

    “I enjoyed rvery much reading the book. I don't know why some people found it difficult to read or even thought that it's not a complete novel, that it must have a sequel. I think it's a good starting point for Murakami's work.”

    posted Monday, February 4 2008
  • Julio

    julio said:

    “This is my first Murakami. I definitely wanted to keep reading it, but it wasn't what I expected. I give it four stars because I think that three is a just too harsh. The book definitely grabbed, just never really took me anywhere . . .”

    posted Thursday, January 24 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • Theresa H

    theresa h said:

    “really enjoyed it”

    posted Wednesday, January 9 2008
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