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"After Dark" Author: [Japanese] Haruki Murakami Publisher: Nankai Publishing Co., Ltd. Original title: アフターダーク
"After Dark" Author: [Japanese] Haruki Murakami Publisher: Nankai Publishing Co., Ltd. Original title: アフターダーク
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Introduction · · · · · ·
◇ Haruki Murakami's alternative masterpiece. A story that takes place from 23:56 in the middle of the night to 6:52 in the morning in Tokyo in winter.
◇ After dark, everyone's secrets and loneliness are revealed one by one. It is the predicament we are in that connects us closely.
◇ A night adventure to discover the world, a journey of self-seeking. The introverted and sensitive girl, the ordinary but tenacious boy, each of them will undergo their own transformation before dawn.
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When she woke up after two months of sleep, Ellie found that the fact that she was herself suddenly became unreliable. Her body was changing, and her swaying hands were gradually losing their clear outlines. The organs, senses, muscles and memories that had made her who she was were being cleverly taken away one by one by a certain hand. She knew that she would become nothing, and eventually become an existence that could be easily penetrated by external things.
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The word "I" is completely abandoned in this novel. This is Haruki Murakami's first novel written entirely in the third person in 25 years. As people often do, commemoration often means a kind of farewell, a kind of ending, a kind of transformation. ——"Oriental Morning Post"
"After Dark" tells the story of a girl who is reborn overnight... It can be said that Haruki Murakami uses this realistic description to face up to the inexplicable young people and the inexplicable Japanese society. - "Asahi Shimbun"
"Viewpoint" becomes a concept, and the expressionless "we" look down and observe the world, but never intervene in it. This heavy anonymous space is like a pressure covering the novel... The phenomenon described in this book is not a dream, not a metaphor, but the reality before our eyes. —— Masayo Koike (poet)
Ultimately, the theme is still about the secrets that everyone has, the secrets that cannot be expressed in words, the secrets that cannot be discussed... The sadness of having secrets that cannot be discussed cannot be wiped away by others, and all they can do is sit quietly aside. This is Haruki Murakami's unique theme, melody and philosophy. - Daily News
About the Author · · · · · ·
Haruki Murakami was born in 1949. He started writing at the age of 29. His debut novel Hear the Wind Sing won the Japan Group Portrait Newcomer Award. Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, caused a sensation around the world. 1Q84, published in 2009, was hailed as "a milestone in Japanese literature in the new millennium", and won the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award and the New Wind Award. It was ranked No. 1 in Japan's "Top 30 Most Influential Books in the Heisei Era". In addition to writing, he is keen on translating English literature, running, and jazz.
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