![]() ![]() His novels have made it onto the top 100 list of Japan’s SF Magazine, however, and even his most “realistic” fiction contains elements of the metaphysical and surrealist qualities. ![]() It is science fiction with elements of Murakami’s own personal folklore and mythology peppered throughout to remind us, just when everything seems relatively “normal” and “real” that something wholly different and unknown is happening beneath the surface.īut to a Western audience, Murakami’s work is rarely considered science fiction. In the time between the last train at midnight and the first train at dawn, Murakami guides us into an alternate universe – or, really, a multiverse – that exists in the corners and alleyways of what in daylight was an unassuming and ostensibly understood city. After Dark blends the metaphysical and otherworldly with the gritty realism and familiarity of Tokyo to create an atmosphere that disrupts and entangles the reader’s senses. After Dark was my introduction to Haruki Murakami’s work, and since then having read nearly his entire catalog – including those novels considered by critics vastly superior like Kafka on the Shore and his most recent masterpiece 1Q84, it remains my unquestionable favorite Murakami. ![]()
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