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2024-12-31
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By WALTER KIRN Should the aliens ever descend in their sleek ships and train their great scanners on our population centers, capturing our deeds and dreams for transmission back to cosmic headquarters, let’s hope they show us the patient tenderness of Har...
評分By WALTER KIRN Should the aliens ever descend in their sleek ships and train their great scanners on our population centers, capturing our deeds and dreams for transmission back to cosmic headquarters, let’s hope they show us the patient tenderness of Har...
評分By WALTER KIRN Should the aliens ever descend in their sleek ships and train their great scanners on our population centers, capturing our deeds and dreams for transmission back to cosmic headquarters, let’s hope they show us the patient tenderness of Har...
評分結局讓我覺得很不過癮,期待的action都沒有齣來,好像作者隻寫瞭一個故事的三分之一齣來。剩下的都自己吞迴肚子裏,沒有吐齣來。 作者扮演的角色是鏡頭,所以敘述也像是拍電影一樣經常變化場景,按時間分段(很有些《24小時》的味道),鏡頭忽遠忽近。故事的主綫是Mari和Taka...
評分圖書標籤: 村上春樹 村上春樹 日本 HarukiMurakami 小說 Japanese 英譯本 Murakami,村上
村上春樹
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。。。
評分英文版的村上,更有韻味
評分翻譯得挺好,故事真不喜歡。。。
評分村上春樹漢字英文親筆簽名。
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