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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/818120.After_Dark?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="After Dark" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1178660246m/818120.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/818120.After_Dark?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">After Dark</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3354.Haruki_Murakami">Haruki Murakami</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6708548?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>a friend has lent me this book. murakami is one of her favorites and she thought i will like it too. i read it for one day last weekend in lahore and finished just before the sun sinks in. kept me going coz it's not that thick, though quite weird. at times i need to flip a few pages back to understand. the story is set in japan and tells a lot about japanese culture, in the barest language and yet rich imagery. basically, the story, which all happened in one night, is about estranged sisters - a younger one who is awake that night, the other in comatose. i also like the conversation of the younger sister with the main male character - full of honesty and humor. let me indulge on this one. the guy is in a band, playing the trombone, and was quite surprised that the sister knows about a trombone. said not everyone knows a trombone, jimi hendrix became a rock idol for playing and smashing his electric guitar. if you'll smash a trombone on stage, the audience'd laugh. i think it's very funny! <br/> <br/>but actually, when the friend asked me how did i find her book, "disturbing" is what first came into my mind. an excerpt: <i>"darkness is the time between midnight and the time the sky grows light. no one can predict when or where such abysses will swallow people, or when or where they will spit out into them."</i> she said she has stopped analyzing books long time ago. i don't believe her. she gave me a "guided tour" of which murakami books to read afterwards and some info about how some of her friends think about murakami (too analytical i think). hopefully, i can find some cheap second hand copies in bookshops. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/236823?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>