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Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake.
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.
'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' The Times
ISBN: | 9780099448563 |
Publication date: | 6th March 2003 |
Author: | Haruki Murakami |
Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 132 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Magical realism Narrative theme: Love and relationships Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world Shorter Reads Fiction in translation |