{"product_id":"9780385681803","title":"After Dark","description":"\u003cb\u003eA short, sleek novel of encounters set in the witching hours of Tokyo between midnight  and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami’s masterworks \u003ci\u003eThe Wind-Up  Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKafka on the Shore.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At its center are two sisters: Yuri, a fashion  model sleeping her way into oblivion; and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary  reading at an anonymous Denny’s into lives radically alien to her own: those of a  jazz trombonist who claims they’ve met before; a burly female “love hotel” manager  and her maidstaff; and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman.  These “night people” are haunted by secrets and needs that draw them together more  powerfully than the differing circumstances that might keep them apart, and it soon  becomes clear that Yuri’s slumber—mysteriously tied to the  businessman plagued by  the mark of his crime—will either restore or annihilate her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e After Dark \u003c\/i\u003emoves  from mesmerizing drama to metaphysical speculation, interweaving time and space as  well as memory and perspective into a seamless exploration of human agency—the  interplay between self-expression and understanding, between the power of observation  and the scope of compassion and love. Murakami’s trademark humor, psychological insight and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious  mastery.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46932954284288,"sku":"9780385681803","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0084\/8081\/7207\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7707d472-6803-467f-87ad-2fe5c6395e2c.jpg?v=1755720050","url":"https:\/\/www.secretplanet.ca\/products\/9780385681803","provider":"Secret Planet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}