Description
Sách tiếng Anh – After Dark
Công ty phát hành: Harper Collins Publisher
Nhà xuất bản: Harper Collins Publisher
Tác giả: Haruki Murakami
Kích thước: 177 x 110 x 13
Ngày xuất bản: 29/04/2008
Số trang: 208 trang
Loại bìa: Bìa mềm
After Dark
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?
Phía sau màn đêm
Giờ nửa đêm đang đến gần trong một quán ăn thâu đêm gần như trống rỗng. Mari nhấp một ngụm cà phê và ngước mắt lên khỏi cuốn sách khi một chàng trai trẻ, một nhạc sĩ, xâm nhập vào nỗi cô đơn của cô. Cả hai đều đã lỡ chuyến tàu cuối
