Mari, who speaks Chinese fluently, agrees. Kaoru says that she is a friend of Takahashi’s, and that Takahashi told Kaoru to come her and ask Mari for help because Kaoru needed someone who spoke Chinese. An image of a man sitting on a chair in an empty room appears on the screen.īack at Denny’s, Mari is sitting alone when a large woman, Kaoru, comes in and sits across from her. The television turns on, but it is unplugged. In the next chapter, the narrator brings us into Eri’s bedroom. He worries that she is out alone at night with no trains running to take her home, and so leaves her his phone number and tells her he will be back for breakfast after practice if she wants to wait for him. He sits down across from her and the two strike up a conversation. Takahashi, a trombone player whose best friend once dated Mari’s sister, comes into the restaurant and recognizes Mari. Slowly, we zoom down into an entertainment district and enter a Denny’s where we spot Mari sitting alone, drinking coffee, smoking a cigarette, and reading a thick book. Murakami’s After Dark starts in the present tense with the omniscient narrator guiding us on a tour over Tokyo. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Murakami, Haruki.
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