After dark

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Sinopse

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. The musician has plans to rehearse with his jazz band all night, Mari is More...equally unconcerned and content to read, smoke and drink coffee until dawn. They realise they ve been acquainted through Eri, Mari s beautiful sister. The musician soon leaves with a promise to return before dawn. Shortly afterwards Mari will be 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 soporfic 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. Murakami, acclaimed master of the surreal, returns with a stunning new novel, where the familiar can become unfamiliar after midnight, even to those that thrive in small hours. With After Dark we journey beyond the twilight. Strange nocturnal happenings, or a trick of the night?

Participantes

Autor: Haruki Murakami

Tradutor: Jay Rubin

Autor

HARUKI MURAKAMI

Haruki Murakami nasceu em Kyoto, no Japão, em janeiro de 1949. Cresceu em Kobe e se graduou na Universidade Waseda, em Tóquio. Viveu por quatro anos nos Estados Unidos, onde deu aulas em Princeton, e regressou ao país natal em 1995. É considerado um dos autores mais importantes da atual literatura japonesa. Sua obra foi traduzida para mais de quarenta idiomas e recebeu importantes prêmios, como o Yomiuri — que já foi concedido a autores como Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe e Kobo Abe — e o Franz Kafka Prize. O escritor vive atualmente nas proximidades de Tóquio. Publicou o relato Do que eu falo quando eu falo de corrida e os romances Minha querida Sputnik, Norwegian Wood, Kafka à beira-mar e Após o anoitecer.