After Dark, Japan (2004)
Author: Haruki Murakami
Eerie. Strange. Creepy. Gripping. Imaginative.
Undoubtedly, these are some of the best words to describe Haruki Murakami's 2004 novel, After Dark.
I have to say that the book is a good read during the witching hour, or perhaps even better before the break of the day. As the night gets deeper and you get more engrossed reading this, you can apparently feel or imagine the eerie dream world ambiance that is fluidly and wonderfully described. True to his words, Murukami's novel will immerse you into "the secret entries into darkness in the interval between midnight and the time the sky grows light", a period when "no one can predict when or where such abysses will swallow people, or when or where they will split them out."
What's exciting to note about After Dark is that it effortlessly juxtaposes reality and fantasy altogether; one moment there's a vivid landscape of the real world and then in a sudden twist of exposition, you will be introduced into far uncertain alternative cosmos. And that's fluidly done, which is one thing I really appreciate when I read written works that has a surrealism theme/ touch. Murukami's writing has a sly way of sucking us into the black hole, hence, transporting us into another galaxy- the world After Dark.
Just when we think that we've already been consumed by and into the world of make-believe, Murakami would shift the gear and wickedly drive our train of thought to make us realize that indeed, reality may even be stranger than fiction. And that's a really big imaginative tease which is better experienced After Dark!
Author: Haruki Murakami
Eerie. Strange. Creepy. Gripping. Imaginative.
Undoubtedly, these are some of the best words to describe Haruki Murakami's 2004 novel, After Dark.
I have to say that the book is a good read during the witching hour, or perhaps even better before the break of the day. As the night gets deeper and you get more engrossed reading this, you can apparently feel or imagine the eerie dream world ambiance that is fluidly and wonderfully described. True to his words, Murukami's novel will immerse you into "the secret entries into darkness in the interval between midnight and the time the sky grows light", a period when "no one can predict when or where such abysses will swallow people, or when or where they will split them out."
What's exciting to note about After Dark is that it effortlessly juxtaposes reality and fantasy altogether; one moment there's a vivid landscape of the real world and then in a sudden twist of exposition, you will be introduced into far uncertain alternative cosmos. And that's fluidly done, which is one thing I really appreciate when I read written works that has a surrealism theme/ touch. Murukami's writing has a sly way of sucking us into the black hole, hence, transporting us into another galaxy- the world After Dark.
Just when we think that we've already been consumed by and into the world of make-believe, Murakami would shift the gear and wickedly drive our train of thought to make us realize that indeed, reality may even be stranger than fiction. And that's a really big imaginative tease which is better experienced After Dark!
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