Mari is rather reserved when talking to strangers but however is keen on "making everything right". As a child she went to a school for Chinese children. Mari Asai, a 19-year-old student learning Chinese philology.Parts of the story take place in a world between reality and dream, and each chapter begins with an image of a clock depicting the passage of time throughout the night. In the love hotel Mari also hears stories from some of the staff working there and takes a glance at the other world hidden below the one we are aware of. The group then tries to track down Shirakawa, and includes the Chinese Mafia group that 'owns' the prostitute. Kaoru needs Mari to talk to a Chinese prostitute who had just been beaten in the love hotel by an office worker, Shirakawa. Mari crosses paths with a retired female wrestler, Kaoru, now working as a manager in a love hotel called "Alphaville". Meanwhile, Eri is in a deep sleep next to a television and seems to be haunted by a menacing figure. There she meets Takahashi Tetsuya, a trombone-playing student who loves Curtis Fuller's "Five Spot After Dark" song on Blues-ette Takahashi knows Mari's sister Eri, who he was once interested in, and insists that the group of them have hung out before. Set in metropolitan Tokyo over the course of one night, characters include Mari Asai, a 19-year-old student, who is spending the night reading in a Denny's. After Dark ( アフターダーク, Afutā Dāku) is a 2004 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
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