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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 sistersβEri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Dennyβs toward people whose lives are radically alien to her own: a jazz trombonist who claims theyβve met before, a burly female βlove hotelβ manager and her maid staff, and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman. These βnight peopleβ 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 Eriβs slumberβmysteriously tied to the businessman plagued by the mark of his crimeβwill 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 agencyβthe interplay between self-expression and empathy, between the power of observation and the scope of compassion and love. Murakamiβs trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.
 Media BuzzAll Things Considered - July 27, 2007
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