![]() ![]() 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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