Tokyo at night. You can meet everyone. Lonely student reading a book, the young musician playing the trombone, a former Wrestler, computer science, a gangster and a prostitute. Their fates intersect in a few nocturnal hours. Together with them, visit the bars, the underground of a skyscraper, love hotel, shop the night. Each of the characters looking for something. Perhaps something that can only be found before fleeing. Day, which forces you to live and cope with problems. Is the night, however, gives respite? Rather pulls into the vortex of unexpected events. It also lets you meet a stranger and talk to people as if they knew all your life. We learn, so the fate of a woman fleeing from the Mafia and the former zapaśniczki working in a night hotel. We will learn what it feels zakompleksiona student, living in the shadow of her beautiful sister, and a young musician who dreamed of becoming a lawyer. This night like any other and the characters end up coming back to your life. Is there something in it to change? There is no such certainty. U Murakami, nothing is certain. He annoys his ambiguities. Just as in his other books. The very plot is not paramount here. At first glance it may even seem very abstract. "Beautiful girl, Eri, is steeped in the house for 2 months in a secret dream ..." This is the first sentence of the announcement of this book. It sounds incredible. But while reading everything slowly becomes clear. At least for those who know something about Japanese culture and mentality. But you do not need the same special interest in Japan to reach for the book Murakami. If only to meet the dialogues, which can bring to their knees! It is through dialogues, Murakami is able to masterfully illustrate characters of their characters. Seemingly trivial conversation about transforming the debate even philosophical. Well, it is characterized by the way the original sense of humor, who generously gives his characters. Characters who are never ordinary. Even if they themselves think so. In the book, After Dark meet just such characters. How will end the night full of adventure, and what will bring the dawn? Murakami is happy to answer this question, but only in part. The rest the reader must be answered by yourself. It is so mind's eye to move on the streets of Tokyo and see what awaits us there After Dark .