After Dark (versione italiana)
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Publisher Description
«Librandosi al di sopra della generale tristezza, Murakami riesce a captare le fosforescenze, in ogni luogo e in particolare nell'aura che avvolge le persone: di notte e nella comunanza degli esseri umani, essa raggiunge l'apice della luminosità». «The New York Times Book Review»
Murakami Haruki in uniform edition Super ET, con le copertine di Noma Bar.
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Un giovane jazzista, un esperto informatico, una prostituta picchiata da un cliente, la manager di un love hotel, una ventunenne che vegeta in uno stato semicomatoso, e sua sorella, ragazza solitaria e inquieta.
In una Tokyo aliena, nell'arco di una sola notte i destini di queste persone finiscono per incrociarsi facendo emergere un inatteso senso di umana solidarietà.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Murakami's 12th work of fiction is darkly entertaining and more novella than novel. Taking place over seven hours of a Tokyo night, it intercuts three loosely related stories, linked by Murakami's signature magical-realist absurd coincidences. When amateur trombonist and soon-to-be law student Tetsuya Takahashi walks into a late-night Denny's, he espies Mari Asai, 19, sitting by herself, and proceeds to talk himself back into her acquaintance. Tetsuya was once interested in plain Mari's gorgeous older sister, Eri, whom he courted, sort of, two summers previously. Murakami then cuts to Eri, asleep in what turns out to be some sort of menacing netherworld. Tetsuya leaves for overnight band practice, but soon a large, 30ish woman, Kaoru, comes into Denny's asking for Mari: Mari speaks Chinese, and Kaoru needs to speak to the Chinese prostitute who has just been badly beaten up in the nearby "love hotel" Kaoru manages. Murakami's omniscient looks at the lives of the sleeping Eri and the prostitute's assailant, a salaryman named Shirakawa, are sheer padding, but the probing, wonderfully improvisational dialogues Mari has with Tetsuya, Kaoru and a hotel worker named Korogi sustain the book until the ambiguous, mostly upbeat d nouement.
