![]() ![]() ![]() "Its when his technique is inconspicuous and not when he's waving his wand above the hat that Murakami's spell is most persuasive. At times, the novel recalls those unsettling films of Jean-Luc Godard or Michelangelo Antonioni where something dire seems always about to happen, even as attractive young people, full of anomie and confusion, meander aimlessly through an ominous urban landscape." - The Washington Post. ![]() " After Dark is a short book, hypnotically eerie, full of noirish foreboding, sometimes even funny, but, most of all, it's one that keeps ratcheting up the suspense. "A seductive and gratifying intellectual and romantic adventure" - Kirkus. "Murakami's genius, on both large and small canvases, is to create worlds both utterly alien and disconcertingly familiar. "robing, wonderfully improvisational dialogues.sustain the book until the ambiguous, mostly upbeat dénouement." - PW. ![]()
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