A review by lirien
After Dark by Haruki Murakami

3.0

It turns out I can make way more progress on my 30-books-a-year reading goal if I read something other than 700-page SF monoliths! Who knew? As for this book, it's my first full-length Murakami. The writing is lovely and surreal, though I'm always wondering about how it sounds in the original Japanese. There isn't much of a "plot" and a lot is left unanswered. It's more about ideas and feelings - such as how people live in different personal worlds despite being in physical proximity, the invisible barriers separating people, the role of memories, etc.