We meet the offender, a late night office worker, and his lone time at work, and returning home at dawn. The hotel manager can't understand what the poor girl is trying to say, and asks Mari to help translate.Įventually the girl is picked up by one of her pimps, and the pimp and his gang are on the look out for the man who brutalized the girl. A Chinese prostitute has been brutalized at the Love hotel, and her client vanishes without paying up.

He practices in a garage near a Love hotel, and after a while, she gets a call, asking for help from a hotel manager of a love hotel. He tries to chat her up, and she responds a little coldly as they catch up. She meets a young aspiring musician, a guitarist in a band, who happened to meet her a few years ago, along with her elder sister Eri, a model, on a group date.

The story centers around the late night goings-on, centering around a young Japanese college girl Mari specializing in Chinese language studies, trying to while time away in a fast food joint reading to put off going home. So, when I saw After Dark in a good friend's collection, I immediately asked to borrow it. In time, I've grown to like the way he writes, to accept his brand of surrealism that is typically Japanese. I picked up many of Murakami san's books, except the one recommended to me. As a student of Exhibition and Spatial Design, I was to learn and understand how space can be manipulated and transcended, and expressed across media.

My tryst with Haruki Murakami began two years ago, when a College Professor recommended that I read his book, The Wind Up Bird Chronicle.

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