With the publication of his novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle a decade ago, Japanese writer Haruki Murakami secured his place as one of the world's great writers.
That sprawling, sometimes hallucinatory work has stayed with us far longer than most novels we've read. And we've joined the large ranks of fans who wait eagerly to see what Murakami is up to next.
His new book, After Dark, (available next week), is a much more circumscribed piece of writing, focusing on a few characters over a single night in Tokyo.
Large work or small, Murakami makes every sentence worth your time.
written on Wednesday May 2, 2007
Tokyo,
night,
book.
