After Dark: Murakami Haruki

Murakami, Haruki

ISBN 10: 0099506246 ISBN 13: 9780099506249

Verlag: Vintage, 2008

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Descripción: VINTAGE, United Kingdom, 2008. Paperback. Estado de conservación: Good. 198 x 129 mm. Brand New Book. .SINOPSIS:The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. Later, Mari is interrupted a second time by a girl from the Alphaville Hotel; a Chinese prostitute has been hurt by a client, the girl has heard Mari speaks fluent Chinese and requests her help. Meanwhile Eri is at home and sleeps a deep, heavy sleep that is too perfect, too pure to be normal; pulse and respiration at the lowest required level. She has been in this soporific state for two months; Eri has become the classic myth - a sleeping beauty. But tonight as the digital clock displays 00:00 a faint electrical crackle is perceptible, a hint of life flickers across the TV screen, though the television s plug has been pulled. Strange nocturnal happenings, or a trick of the night?.

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"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)

Reseña del editor:

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?

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0099506246
• ISBN 13: 9780099506249
• Einband: Encuadernación desconocida
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208