Review: After Dark

After Dark by Haruki Murakami
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Lately my expectations for Murakami novels have been very high, so I've sometimes been (slightly) let down. This novel did the opposite. I hadn't heard much about it, so I guess I didn't expect too much in the end, but it was great. A short read, but enough to draw you into the Murakami world (it does so pretty much from the beginning) and it has just a hint of fantasy (less than Kafka on the Shore, more than South of the Border, West of the Sun).

I also enjoyed the symbolism of the dark and light (I'm sure there was more that I missed, but I at least got that much thanks to the title).

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