Such puzzles make me addicted to Murakami's stories. Do you answer the ringing phone in the crisper at the convenience store? How do you wake a beautiful girl who won't be woken? And just like in Alice, the rules that apply in our world won't guide us after dark. Instead of Alice's imperious flowers, though, it's the shadow world of a Japanese city at night, where faces appear in empty mirrors and blurred figures pass on security footage in love hotels. I felt sure that that world would indeed be curiouser and curiouser - that things would not be as they had appeared from our side of the mirror.Īfter Dark, the latest surreal novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami lets us into a mirror world normally hidden. Anna Hedigan: Do you remember the moment in Through the Looking Glass when Alice finds the mirror on the mantelpiece turned to 'silvery mist' and she jumps through it into the reverse-world of her room? As a child I felt the thrill it gave Alice to move beyond the glass.
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