After Dark (Signed 1st Printing)

Murakami, Haruki

ISBN 10: 0307265838 / ISBN 13: 9780307265838

Published by Knopf, New York, 2007

About this Item

An As New book in an As New dust jacket. First Edition (stated)/ First Printing (no other printings noted). SIGNED in English on the second blank page (perhaps a publisher's laid in blank page) along with his "HARUKI MURAKAMI" ink stamp and his small bird stamp/chop msrk. Book is pristine inside and out - clean, unmarked, tight and square. Mylar protected jacket is fully intact, bright and clean with no markings or tears. A solid, unread, highly collectible, flawless copy over all.

Seller Inventory # 002633

Bibliographic Details

• Title: After Dark (Signed 1st Printing)
• Publisher: Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307265838
• ISBN 13: 9780307265838
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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.

After Dark moves from mesmerizing drama to metaphysical speculation, interweaving time and space as well as memory and perspective into a seamless exploration of human agency—the interplay between self-expression and empathy, between the power of observation and the scope of compassion and love. Murakami’s trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.

About the Author

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into thirty-eight languages. The most recent of his many honors is the Franz Kafka Prize.