The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has plans to rehearse with his jazz band all night, Mari is equally unconcerned and content to read, smoke and drink coffee until dawn. They realise they ve been acquainted through Eri, Mari s beautiful sister. The musician soon leaves with a promise to return before dawn. Shortly afterwards Mari will be interrupted a second time by a girl from the Alphaville Hotel; a Chinese prostitute has been hurt by a client, the girl has heard Mari speaks fluent Chinese and requests her help. eanwhile Eri is at home and sleeps a deep, heavy sleep that is 'too perfect, too pure' to be normal; pulse and respiration at the lowest required level. She has been in this soporfic state for two months; Eri has become the classic myth a sleeping beauty. But tonight as the digital clock displays 00-00 a faint electrical crackle is perceptible, a hint of life flickers across the TV screen, though the television s plug has been pulled. urakami, acclaimed master of the surreal, returns w
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Handlinga i denne romanen er lagt til ei natt i Tokyo, i tidsrommet 23:56 til 6:52. I sentrum står de to søstrene Eri og Mari. Eri har vært i en merkelig søvn i tre måneder, mens Mari sitter og leser på en nattkafé. En ung jazztrombonist slår seg ned ved Maris bord, og senere på natta blir hun trukket inn i et drama på et kjærlighetshotell der en kinesisk prostituert er blitt banket opp. I Eris soverom skrur tv-en seg på og sender ut mystiske signaler.
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ISBN
9781846550485
Publisert
2007
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)
Aldersnivå
Voksen
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Heftet

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