![]() ![]() Takahashi goes back to his all night jazz practice session and leaves Mari to herself, but again she is interrupted by a large, female ex-wrestler Kaoru, now night manager of a Love Hotel, Alphaville. ![]() (True)Īt once the book is unnatural, the conversation far too animated and detailed to be realistic, but nevertheless a pleasure. She’s interrupted by a talkative trombonist, young Takahashi, who once had a thing for her beautiful sister, Eri and who complains you can never get crisp toast in Denny’s. ![]() Published April 2008 by Vintage (first published 2004)Įver read a book and realised a few paragraphs in that you have already read it? Sneaky publishers are always changing covers these days and somehow I thought I was buying a ‘new’ Murakami even though his new ones are in fact his very first novels before his breakthrough with 'A Wild Sheep Chase'.Īfter Dark is a curious book, I must have blanked it because it had no lasting impression, except I remembered it began in a Denny’s in Tokyo with a student, Mari Esai reading a textbook late into the night. Paperback, First Vintage International Edition, 244 pages ![]()
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