It’s bloody, but Mari manages to calm the girl down and she’s later claimed by her pimp, who arrives on his motorcycle. Mari wearily accompanies Kaoru to the hotel and meets a terrified young Chinese prostitute who has been beaten up, had all her clothes and money stolen by her john. She needs a Chinese speaker urgently and Takahashi has put her name forward to help. 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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