"In "After Dark, " night seems to be where Murakami was headed all
along, a place where the ordinary acts that he has written of so
evocatively stand out against the velvety bas relief of the Tokyo
night, a backdrop that gives these acts both danger and wonder . .
. He has a natural curiosity about people, a belief that they
contain wonders, perhaps none so great as the capacity for human
connection."
--Charles Taylor, "Newsday"
""After Dark "[is] hypnotically eerie, sometimes even funny, but
most of all, it's [a book] that keeps ratcheting up the suspense .
. . Through his short, enigmatic chapters, Murakami--aided by Jay
Rubin's perfectly pitched English--manages to convey something of
the interconnectedness of the city and its constant air of
expectancy and danger."
--Michael Dirda, "The Washington Post Book World"
"The world [Murakami] creates--of fast-food restaurants and strange
hotels, people dying (almost literally) to make connections but
able to do so on
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