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.</p>
發表於2024-05-19
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看的第一部村上春樹小說,不知是德文譯者的問題還是原作本身就是如此,感覺作者文筆粗陋,意境局促,功力不足。 整部小說唯有最後,當男女主角在車站分彆後,全景式白描的寫法纔慢慢顯示齣些許氣魄,但為時已晚。 整部小說的意味,其實就在這一句: Die Doppelexistenz schei...
評分I'm a bit disappointed by Murakami's new book. It's a bit watery to me and felt only half of the story was finished...I couldn't get into it as well as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
評分其實對於a.d這本書已不象過去那樣仔細, 畢竟村上先生也沒有刻意的讓讀者在獨特的文字裏麵 反而是區彆其他的電影手法和似曾相識的情節讓人 即使沒有看署名也知道這是先生的文字 一切情節隻不過限定在午夜, 當太陽升起,一切又迴到錶麵 讀它我勸各位在午夜夜深時非常有feel 這...
評分看的第一部村上春樹小說,不知是德文譯者的問題還是原作本身就是如此,感覺作者文筆粗陋,意境局促,功力不足。 整部小說唯有最後,當男女主角在車站分彆後,全景式白描的寫法纔慢慢顯示齣些許氣魄,但為時已晚。 整部小說的意味,其實就在這一句: Die Doppelexistenz schei...
評分第一次看英文版的村上春樹,感覺很奇怪。不過反而比中譯本要好懂一些,不知道什麼原因。 一開始反應不過來,不過當可以被稱為女主人公的Mari與長號手大段的對話齣現時,可以感受到鮮明的村上風格。那女孩子盡管個性彆扭,但她的說話好像就是自己講的話,很自然而淡漠,有時穿插...
圖書標籤: 村上春樹 村上春樹 日本 HarukiMurakami 小說 Japanese 英譯本 Murakami,村上
My first Murakami in English, I should probably say my first Murakami ever. It was a little too weird. I think I prefer his short stories.
評分村上春樹漢字英文親筆簽名。
評分讀完這本有種空空的感覺,大概是因為看過中文版瞭,看英文版的時候總有些急躁,腦子裏總是在跟中文版找對應感,眼睛和腦子大概一直處於對英文小說的適應階段,還好譯者的用詞很簡單,裝幀太粗糙,封麵設計簡直爛的無可救藥。。。
評分讀完這本有種空空的感覺,大概是因為看過中文版瞭,看英文版的時候總有些急躁,腦子裏總是在跟中文版找對應感,眼睛和腦子大概一直處於對英文小說的適應階段,還好譯者的用詞很簡單,裝幀太粗糙,封麵設計簡直爛的無可救藥。。。
評分最後那一段關於如何劃分灰色界限的言論好喜歡,像是找到瞭人生意義一般。都忘瞭中文版瞭。
After Dark 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載