The small hours of the morning are a perfect time for introspection - and, together with Takasashi, Mari begins to work out many of the problems that had resulted in her not being able to sleep in the first place. Through the course of the night, Mari reconnects with an acquaintance named Takahashi, helps a Chinese prostitute who has been beaten by her trick, and generally begins to understand and reveal some things about herself that she never had before. The story is about Mari, a 19-year-old girl who we first see reading at a Denny's just before midnight. I picked this up with some trepidation - it's a very short novel (clocking in at only 191 pages) that Murakami fans seem to like the least of all his work (it only averages 3.56 stars on Goodreads). Indeed, because Murakami's prose is often described as "dreamlike" or "ethereal," there is no better setting for a Murakami novel. After Dark is easily recognizable as a Haruki Murakami novel - it's a book that, much like the wee hours of the night it depicts, has a logic and flow all its own.
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