"Das alles riecht nach einem typisch postmodernen Roman.Alles erscheint gedämpft" - Julia Encke, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung "Es ist ein seltsamer Murakami-Effekt, daß man beim Lesen seiner Romane ganz ruhig wird, daß man eintaucht in einen meditativen Zustand.Yet in After Dark this signature style seems to have found itself a fresher groove." - Margaret Hillenbrand, Financial Times His flair for making dialogue bloom from inhospitable soil, the way he can magic a memorable encounter out of thin air, and his conviction that there is salvation to be found in the company of strangers - all these familiar Murakami traits animate the pages of the novel and give it the writer’s special stamp. "Sleep, and all the altered states its absence conjures up, are the subject of Haruki Murakami’s latest novel (….) These moments of connection are Murakami at his best."The plotlines intertwine haphazardly and a bit listlessly, but Murakami's gifts for conjuring surreal imagery and a dreamlike mood remain uncanny." - Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly.Even with its flaws, though, After Dark is a reminder that, however close the involvement of two people, they can never know each other completely." - The Economist But for all its enigmatic qualities the book leaves an empty feeling, with the unexplained mystery of the sleeping Eri a particular source of frustration. "The author describes adeptly the empathy and understanding that can occur between strangers bound by fate, and his account of the growing intimacy between Takahashi and Mari is moving.For him, the intrigue is in the engaging situations and conversations even alienated individuals encounter as they wend their hapless way through their often bewildering lives." - Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor (…) Like a latter-day Walker Percy or Albert Camus, Murakami raises questions about perception and existence, though he feels no compunction to propose answers.
In classic Murakami form, amid the alienation are flickers of hopefulness springing from seemingly random, serendipitous human interactions and connections. Murakami seems, magically, to have translated the essence of these artists' two-dimensional works into quietly luminous prose, adding the humanity that is his signature. His new novel's strongest evocations are of two American visual artists: Edward Hopper's desolately lonely paintings and the slow-motion video installations of contemporary artist Bill Viola. "Murakami's cultural references are almost exclusively Western and often musical.Many not entirely clear what it might all be about, but the majority impressed, in one way or another General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.
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