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Haruki Murakami - After Dark, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

After Dark

Av Haruki Murakami

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Beskrivning
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 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?
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2008-04-29
  • Mått: 111 x 176 x 15 mm
  • Vikt: 118 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 208
  • Förlag: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780099520863
  • Översättare: Jay Rubin
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In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers’ award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami’s unique and addictive fictional universe.Murakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running to Absolutely On Music, and they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of imaginative inquiry. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring Murakami’s place as one of the world’s most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

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For sheer love of a thumping narrative, the novel delivers gloriously-Inventive, alluring

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5 recensioner, genomsnitt 4.8/5

  1. 5/5 LB

    Vansinnigheter och absurd vardag helt enligt Murakami. Mix av detektivhistoria och fantasy, med en kvinna som har magiska öron och ett märkligt får som hela tiden undslipper huvudpersonerna. Ja, ni hör ju själva. Läs!

  2. 5/5 Patrik C

    Murakami är en storslagen berättare, en mästare på att väva en lika mystisk som finkänslig stämning, och han gör oss inte besviken i After Dark.
    Det är natt i staden, och vi får följa ett antal personer vars öden flätas samman genom ett antal möten. Det är lättsinnigt, det är stämningsfullt, det är spännande och det är eftertänksamt.
    Många av Murakamis böcker har ett närmast surrealistsikt drag där verklighetens gränser suddas ut - i After Dark vill jag snarare säga att den realistiska fictionen möter den magiska realismen. Hans styrka som berättare är att han låter detta ske så naturligt att vi som läsare aldrig reflekterar över bokens mer eller mindre overkliga skeenden. Det fantastiska är lika naturligt och lika sannolikt som ett slumpartat möte på ett nattöppet café.
    After Dark är en varm och stämningsfull bok, och när jag lade ifrån mig den kände jag på något sätt att jag hade mognat som människa. Det är få författare som kan skapa den känslan.

  3. 4/5 Melanie L
  4. 5/5 Michael W
  5. 5/5 Lena

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