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After the Quake: Stories
 

After the Quake: Stories (Vintage International)

by Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami, a writer both mystical and hip, is the West's favorite Japanese novelist. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Murakami lived abroad until 1995. That year, two disasters struck Japan: the lethal earthquake in Kobe and the deadly poison gas attacks in the Tokyo subway. Spurred by these tragic events, Murakami returned home. The stories in After the Quake are set in the months that fell... (read more)

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Lindsay
  • Rated 4 stars

“The last two stories, "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" and "Honey Pie," are by far the best in this collection. I especially liked "Super-Frog."”

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Peach
  • Rated 2 stars

“After the Quake is a book of short stories: “UFO in Kushiro,” “Landscape with Flatiron,” “All God’s Children Can Dance,” “Thailand,” and “Honey Pie.”

The stories in this book are superficially connected by the 1995 earthquakes that are in the background, but the deeper connection is the “quakes” that change the direction of people’s lives. And despite the fact that the stories are about relatively unconnected characters, the thematic undercurrents tie together all six...”

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Community:
  • Rated 3.808743 stars
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  • Rated 4.75 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • claudia j

    claudia j said:

    “I love that the stories are literally short, it allowed me to expand my mind in between naps and feedings while my daughter was a newborn. One usually cannot read anything while having a newborn to care after.”

    posted Saturday, January 5 2008
  • ahmed c

    ahmed c said:

    “Hi Eman,i liked most the book in your shelf,i used to read english and frensh novels from time to time,but last month i read 3 Arabic novels and which i think are the best i ever read,the last 2novel of Alaa Alaswani:Yakobian Building ,and,Chicago,and the third Al Kaeed s :Kismat Alghorama,i think Alaswani will be the Arab s big novelist”

    posted Tuesday, November 20 2007
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