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After the Quake

Written by: Haruki Murakami
Narrated by: Adam Sims, Rupert Degas, Teresa Gallagher
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Brought to you by Penguin.

For the characters in after the quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago.

Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away. Fourteen-year-old Sala has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box. Katagiri returns home to find a giant frog in his apartment on a mission to save Tokyo from a massive burrowing worm.

'When he gets angry, he causes earthquakes,' says Frog. 'And right now he is very, very angry.'

© Haruki Murakami 2000 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

 Anthologies & Short Stories Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Magical Realism Short Stories World Literature
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Critic Reviews

In a dance with the delights of Murakami's imagination we experience the limitless possibilities of fiction. With these stories Murakami expands our hearts and minds yet again
Ushers the reader into a hallucinatory world where the real and surreal merge and overlap, where dreams and real-life nightmares are impossible to tell apart...this slender volume, deftly translated by Jay Rubin, may serve as a succinct introduction to his imaginative world...Lewis Carroll meets Kafka with a touch of Philip K. Dick
Dazzlingly elegant...In a world where even the ground beneath our feet can't be relied on, imagination becomes less of a luxury and more of a duty. It's an obligation that Murakami is busily making his raison d'etre, to our very great advantage
In the world of literary fiction, Haruki Murakami is unquestionably a superstar...Many critics have touted Murakami for the Nobel Prize. If he can stay on this kind of form, he could be in with a chance
Murakami is a unique writer, at once restrained and raw, plainspoken and poetic
A neat, yet somehow insanely generous collection..ruthless honesty, a faintly feminine openness, a seeming ability to find beauty and even glory in the banal, the urban, the modern... [the story] 'Honey Pie' isn't just a love story. It's a piece of writing about the threads and snags of time, the tangles, the way things pan out and why. I couldn't even begin to explain why I find it quite so moving and, in a sense, that's Murakami's magic. He speaks to a place so deep inside us that we can scarcely even reply
Beautifully nuanced stories, realistic snapshots of modern Japan enclosed in a fictional world that is seemingly trivial, but loaded with portent
A really imaginative collection where all the stories are intertwined and mysterious in that Murakami way
Murakami's storytelling inspires intimacy. It's the particular kind of intimacy that can evolve between a reader and a book, unspoken and unexpected, familiar, satisfying, strange. (JANE MENDELSOHN)
Even in the slipperiest of Mr Murakami's stories, pinpoints of detail flash out warm with life.
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Classic Murakami with strange occurrences, literary references, and a certain mood that can only be set by Murakami. This book is a set of short stories all inspired by / surrounding one of the biggest earthquakes that occurred in Japan. The narration is fantastic! Quirky, engrossing stories. Thoroughly enjoyable.

A wild ride

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