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    • When Life Gets Precipitated
    • This story is well crafted in a 7-hour window after dark and string through the happenings from a 19-year-old girl, Mari Asai. It's like a bedtime story, people were tucked in the bed, nowhere to go and nothing else to do, but listening stories attentively from each other.

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  • artie said on Jan 27, 2009 about the Hardcover edition
    • It's like reading modern art. Maybe it means something to some people, but I read the entire book and all it was was a slice of life after dark. I never did care for slice-of-life stuff.

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  • Missmath144 said on Nov 29, 2008 about the Hardcover edition

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Book Description

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.

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Hardcover 208 Pages
ISBN-10: 1846550475
ISBN-13: 9781846550478
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Pub date: Jun 07, 2007
Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Audio CD and Others
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