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
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099448563Number of pages: 144Weight: 109 gDimensions: 198 x 128 x 10 mm
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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 againUshers 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. DickDazzlingly 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 advantageIn 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 chanceMurakami is a unique writer,at once restrained and raw,plainspoken and poetic
Haruki Murakami
Japan's best-known novelist abroad and the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction,includingThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,Kafka on the Shore,After Dark,1Q84,What I Talk About When I Talk About RunningandColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.
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