AFTER DARK VINTAGE — HARUKI MURAKAMI

A short sleek novel of encounters set in the witching hours of Tokyo 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 Yuri a fashion model sleeping her way into oblivion and Mari a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny s into lives radically alien to her own those of a jazz trombonist who claims they ve met before a burly female love hotel manager and her maidstaff 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 Yuri 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 understanding 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 Yayınevi VINTAGE Yazar HARUKI MURAKAMI Dil İNGİLİZCE Sayfa Sayısı 208 SAYFA Yıl 2008