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After dark

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  • Running Time: 05:44 hrs
    Narrator: Janet Song
    Publisher:
    Books on Tape, 2011
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

Details:

  • Contributor: Ingram Digital (Firm); Song, Janet
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2011
    Summary:

    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.

    Original Publisher: [Santa Ana, Calif.], [Prince Frederick, Md.], Books on Tape, [Distributed by] OneClick Digital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781415938607, 1415938601