After Dark

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• After Dark

  La trama e le recensioni di After Dark, romanzo di Murakami Haruki edito da Einaudi. Tokyo, un quartiere che inizia a vivere quando cala il buio, strade dove le insegne di bar e night club restano accese fino all'alba. Dalla mezzanotte alle sette del ... (read full critics)

  Qlibri published on Thu, 25 Nov 2010

• Night of the living dead

  After Dark by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin 191pp, Harvill, £15.99 The night needs to be re-enchanted. So in the nocturnal milieu of Tokyo's 24-hour cafes and love hotels, Haruki Murakami's new novel makes an eerie metaphysical wager. As t ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

8 Reviews

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  I feel bad for the (U.S.) English readers because this book is just too simplistic and silly when read in English.

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  Sweet Sesame said on May 23, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  "The night has begun to open up at last. There will be time until the next darkness arrives."

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  rafsan said on May 25, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Like reading modern art ...

  ... exactly like one of a previous comments, but to be read in a positive key.
  Amazing how one can describe that one only night and still keep you chained to the book until the end!

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  Stepad said on Dec 12, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  Everyone is haunted

  Typically Murakami. Dark and surreal. Complicated and mystrous. The strange atmosphere in the book lingers on.
  I guess what he tries to tell in the book is that everyone is haunted to some extend. Some may be haunted by the past, some may be haunted by the present. However, Marakami acknowledge ... (continue)

  Typically Murakami. Dark and surreal. Complicated and mystrous. The strange atmosphere in the book lingers on.
  I guess what he tries to tell in the book is that everyone is haunted to some extend. Some may be haunted by the past, some may be haunted by the present. However, Marakami acknowledges the importance of memory in one's life, by describing it as the 'fuel' which makes one to carry on.

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  Yao said on Oct 23, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  I was expecting more from the ending of the book, so was left with a slight feeling of disenchantment, but overall it was a mesmerising read.

  Very good to be in one of Murakami's surreal and amazing worlds again.

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  Claire said on Aug 7, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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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 28, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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• Others 201 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1846550483
• ISBN-13: 9781846550485
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Pub date: May 15, 2007
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