Book description
Eyes mark the shape of the city
The midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her
coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl
has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel, and needs Mari's help.
Meanwhile Mari's beautiful sister Eri lies in a deep, heavy sleep
that is 'too perfect, too pure' to be normal; it has lasted for two
months. But tonight as the digital clock displays 00:00, a hint of
life flickers across the television screen, even though it's plug has
been pulled out.
Strange nocturnal happenings, or a trick of the night?
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo.
He is the author of many novels as well as short stories and
non-fiction. His works include
Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird
Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, After Dark
and
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
. His work has been translated into more than forty languages, and the
most recent of his many international honours is the Jerusalem Prize,
whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V.
S. Naipaul.
