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After Dark
  • Published: 2 June 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099506249
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $26.99

After Dark

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2 June 2008
Hardback
24 Oct 2023
EBook
10 Oct 2011
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Reality bends all the more acutely with lack of sleep in this stunning novel from the master of the surreal.

Reality bends all the more acutely with lack of sleep in this stunning novel from the master of the surreal.

Eyes mark the shape of the city

The midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel, and needs Mari's help.

Meanwhile Mari's beautiful sister Eri lies in a deep, heavy sleep that is 'too perfect, too pure' to be normal; it has lasted for two months. But tonight as the digital clock displays 00:00, a hint of life flickers across the television screen in her room, even though it's plug has been pulled out.

Strange nocturnal happenings, or a trick of the night?

'A captivating mood piece, delicate and wistful' Evening Standard
  • Published: 2 June 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099506249
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $26.99
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About the author

Haruki Murakami

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.

In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

portrait photo of Haruki Murakami

Also by Haruki Murakami

Super-Frog Saves Tokyo
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Birthday Girl
1Q84
Norwegian Wood
Sputnik Sweetheart
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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Praise for After Dark

For sheer love of a thumping narrative, the novel delivers gloriously-Inventive, alluring

David Mitchell, Guardian

Wonderful-Magical and outlandish

Daily Mail

Cool, fluent and addictive

Daily Telegraph

Hypnotic, spellbinding

The Times

A magnificently bewildering achievement-Brilliantly conceived, bold in its surreal scope, sexy and driven by a snappy plot-Exuberant storytelling

Independent on Sunday

Stylish and enigmatic

Economist

The novel could be an allegory of sleep, a phenomenology of time, or a cinematic metafiction. Whatever it is, its memory lingers

Guardian

The narrative carries considerable literary weight with a rare grace

Spectator

A captivating mood piece, delicate and wistful

Evening Standard