Kad padne mrak

Kad padne mrak

Haruki Murakami

When it gets dark" is a novel about encounters that take place in that deaf and mysterious time between midnight and dawn.

In the center of the story are two sisters - Eri, a beauty and a model who sleeps as if she is searching for oblivion in her sleep, and the student Mari who during the novel closes a thick book that she was reading in solitude in an anonymous restaurant and meets people who seem to live in someone else's worlds: there is a jazz trombonist who claims to have known her before, the arrogant director of a "love hotel" and her team, a small Chinese prostitute who was brutally beaten by a Japanese businessman. But it is precisely among these "people of the night" that Mari finds kindred spirits because the most hidden secrets and deep needs connect them more than they are divided by different life circumstances, while Eri, who is in a mysterious relationship with a cruel abuser of women, seeks salvation in a dream. "When it gets dark" takes us on an unusual journey from dramatic events to metaphysical reflections, a journey in which space and time, memories and knowledge about the human soul, the power of observation and the power of love and empathy are intertwined.

Original title
Afuta da-ku
Translation
Maja Šoljan
Editor
Milana Vuković Runjić
Dimensions
21.5 x 13 cm
Pages
189
Publisher
Vuković & Runjić, Zagreb, 2009.
 
Latin alphabet. Paperback.
Language: Croatian.

No copies available

The last copy was sold recently.

 

Are you interested in another book? You can search the offer using our search engine or browse books by category.

You may also be interested in these titles

Ubojstvo komentatora 2 : preobrazbe metafore

Ubojstvo komentatora 2 : preobrazbe metafore

Haruki Murakami

The Tokyo painter is abandoned by his wife and the thirty-year-old portrait artist finds himself alone in the mountain house of the famous artist Tomohiko Amada.

Vuković & Runjić, 2020.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
15.8012.64
Stotina godina (antikronika)

Stotina godina (antikronika)

Dario Harjaček

The novel One Hundred Years by Dario Harjaček provides a panoramic view of Trešnjevka and its inhabitants through a century of changes, ideologies, and human destinies – a mosaic of Zagreb in which life, art, and history intertwine.

Oceanmore, 2025.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
13.42
Pišem ti priču : zbirka kratkih priča 6. natječaja za kratku priču Gradske knjižnice Samobor

Pišem ti priču : zbirka kratkih priča 6. natječaja za kratku priču Gradske knjižnice Samobor

Maja Klisurić, Draženka Robotić
Vlastita naklada, 2018.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
2.90
Andrićeva lestvica užasa

Andrićeva lestvica užasa

Svetislav Basara

A Serbian writer known for his satirical novels, Andrić's Ladder of Horrors dissects the Balkan mentality through a parable of Yugo-nostalgia and national myths. The title alludes to Ivo Andrić as a litmus test for criticism – Balkans claim him or reject

24 sata, 2021.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
11.56
Kad žena zri

Kad žena zri

Honore de Balzac
Svjetlost, 1970.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
4.99 - 5.00
Deobe

Deobe

Dobrica Ćosić

Deobe is a novel about the tragic division of Serbs into Chetniks and Partisans during World War II. Winner of the NIN Award, it is part of a wider epic trilogy, inspired by Ćosić's experiences and historical documents.

Prosveta, 1963.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
13.74