After Dark | HARUKI MURAKAMI

Haruki Murakami
After Dark
PENGUIN BOOKS

From the New York Times bestselling authora gripping novel of late night encounters thats hypnotically eerie, sometimes even funny, but most of all [a book] that keeps ratcheting up the suspense (The Washington Post Book World). Nineteen-year-old Mari is waiting out the night in an anonymous Dennys when she meets a young man who insists he knows her older sister, thus setting her on an odyssey through the sleeping city. In the space of a single night, the lives of a diverse cast of Tokyo residentsmodels, prostitutes, mobsters, and musicianscollide in a world suspended between fantasy and reality. Utterly enchanting and infused with surrealism, After Dark is a thrilling account of the magical hours separating midnight from dawn.