After Dark
Murakami, Haruki.
Toronto: Bond Street Books, c2007.
Summary: A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn. At its center are two sisters - Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny's toward people whose lives are radically alien to her own: a jazz trombonist who claims they've met before, a burly female "love hotel" manager and her maid staff, and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman. - Book Jacket.