AFTER DARK by Haruki Murakami

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From the New York Times bestselling author?a gripping novel of late night encounters that?s ?hypnotically eerie, sometimes even funny, but most of all ? [a book] that keeps ratcheting up the suspense? (The Washington Post Book World).

Nineteen-year-old Mari is waiting out the night in an anonymous Denny?s when she meets a young man who insists he knows her older sister, thus setting her on an odyssey through the sleeping city. In the space of a single night, the lives of a diverse cast of Tokyo residents?models, prostitutes, mobsters, and musicians?collide in a world suspended between fantasy and reality. Utterly enchanting and infused with surrealism, After Dark is a thrilling account of the magical hours separating midnight from dawn.