After Darkness (2014) is a novel by Australian author Christine Piper.

[1] It won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 2014 and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2015.

The novel follows the story, told in three intertwined narrative strands, of Tomakazu Ibaraki, a Japanese doctor living in Australia around the time of World War II.

The first strand deals with Ibaraki's arrival in a detainment camp in South Australia in 1942 after the outbreak of war; the second with Ibaraki's arrival in Broome in 1938 to work in a hospital there; and the third concerns his marriage in Tokyo in 1934.