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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.
Knopf
May 2007
On Sale: May 5, 2007
208 pages
ISBN: 0307265838
EAN: 9780307265838
Hardcover
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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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