After dark
A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami's masterworks The wind-up bird chronicle and Kafka on the shore. At its center are two sisters--Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and...
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| Language: | English Japanese |
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[Santa Ana, Calif.] :
Books on Tape,
2007.
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| Summary: | A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami's masterworks The wind-up bird chronicle and Kafka on the shore. At its center are two sisters--Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny's toward people whose lives are radically alien to her own: a jazz trombonist who claims they've met before, a burly female "love hotel" manager and her maid staff, and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman. These "night people" are haunted by secrets and needs that draw them together more powerfully than the differing circumstances that might keep them apart, and it soon becomes clear that Eri's slumber--mysteriously tied to the businessman plagued by the mark of his crime--will either restore or annihilate her. |
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| Item Description: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 5:44:18. |
| Playing Time: | 05:44:18 |
| Format: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 82463 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9781415938607 1415938601 |
| Author Notes: | He writes both fiction and non-fiction works. His fiction works include Norwegian Wood, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, The Strange Library, and Men Without Women. Several of his stories have been adapted for the stage and as films. His nonfiction works include What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. He has received numerous literary awards including the Franz Kafka Prize for Kafka on the Shore, the Yomiuri Prize for The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and the Jerusalem Prize. He has translated into Japanese literature written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, Truman Capote, John Irving, and Paul Theroux. (Bowker Author Biography) |
