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After the Quake
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Paperback English
By (author) Haruki Murakami


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 Murakamis imagination we experience the limitless possibilities of fiction. With these stories Murakami expands our hearts and minds yet again The Times


Product details

Format Paperback | 144 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 8mm | 106g
Publication date 01 Dec 2003
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint Vintage
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
Illustrations note 0
ISBN10 0099448564
ISBN13 9780099448563
Bestsellers rank 8,214