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# After The Quake

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After The Quake : MURAKAMI HARUKI: desertcart.in: Books

Review: Beautiful - All the stories are so beautiful written around main theme of the book 'Earthquake' . Life goes on even as mother nature gets angry sometimes. Murakami does magic with words. Even the superficial characters in his stories are so humanized that you don't even realise the difference. Beautiful stories..ma must read if you are a Murakami fan
Review: Mostly good, but a bit undercooked - Sometimes Murakami tends to finish one in-a-huff, thereby leaving it a bit undercooked. These short-story collections - which are very good by-and-large - feel like have been ended with the writer working on a tight timeline, which is a recipe for not quite there. Still, you can give it a go; it’s still very good.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | 0099448564 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #125,932 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #915 in Fantasy Anthologies #939 in Military Fantasy (Books) #1,109 in Paranormal Fantasy (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (1,202) |
| Dimensions  | 12.8 x 0.9 x 19.7 cm |
| Generic Name  | BOOK |
| ISBN-10  | 9780099448563 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0099448563 |
| Importer  | Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd |
| Item Weight  | 106 g |
| Language  | English |
| Packer  | Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd |
| Print length  | 144 pages |
| Publication date  | 6 March 2003 |
| Publisher  | RHUK |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful
*by I***C on 1 August 2022*

All the stories are so beautiful written around main theme of the book 'Earthquake' . Life goes on even as mother nature gets angry sometimes. Murakami does magic with words. Even the superficial characters in his stories are so humanized that you don't even realise the difference. Beautiful stories..ma must read if you are a Murakami fan

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mostly good, but a bit undercooked
*by D***A on 11 October 2021*

Sometimes Murakami tends to finish one in-a-huff, thereby leaving it a bit undercooked. These short-story collections - which are very good by-and-large - feel like have been ended with the writer working on a tight timeline, which is a recipe for not quite there. Still, you can give it a go; it’s still very good.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A book full of brilliant disguises
*by B***E on 8 December 2016*

For full review please visit my blog https://booksteaandmorecom.wordpress.com/2016/12/07/book-review-after-the-quake/#more-305 This book is a collection of six short stories. All stories are dated post the devastating Kobe earthquake of 1995 in Japan.None of the protagonists in any of the stories suffer from any loss in this earthquake. Yet this disaster jostles their life like the aftershocks of the earthquake. The first story is UFO in Kushiro. It follows the story of Komura who like most of Murakami’s male protagonist leads a mundane listless life. His wife is glued to the television for days watching news about the Kobe earthquake. This affects her to the degree that she divorces Komura as she feels that he is empty as a person. Still, Komura does not seem much affected and travels to Hokkaido. It is there he realises the void that is present in him. The second story is Landscape with Flatrion. This follows the story of Junko and Miyake. Miyake is passionate about bonfires and is scared of the refrigerator. He dreams that the refrigerator will engulf him and he will die a slow suffocating death. Junko sees a deep calm and peace in the bonfire and as the fire dwindles she realises that she is empty as a person. This greatly perturbs her and they both feel that they could die together. All God’s children can dance follows the story of Yoshiya. He had a single mother who posts her dark teenage years becomes a staunch believer of God. She tells Yoshiya that he is the son of God. His mother had told him of a doctor whose ear lobes were bitten off by a dog. He believes this person is his father and on encountering such a person one day he starts following him. At last, he has a vision where he again resorts to God. The fourth story is Thailand. This follows the story of Satsuki, who has separated from her husband. Her husband resides in Kobe and Satsuki wishes that he should have died in the earthquake. Her chauffeur Nimit takes her to an old lady, healer of souls who tells her that she has a stone inside her. This stone will kill her and she has to let the snake who will come in her dream engulf this stone. Super frog saves Tokyo is the story where a giant six-foot frog visits Katagiri and informs him that a big earthquake is going to take place in Tokyo. The frog needs the help of Katagiri to stop this earthquake and they need to fight with the worm. Here too Katagiri is a simple decent guy who neither gets appreciation and is alone. The last story is Honey pie. This is the classic story of unrequited love. It follows the story of three friends Junpei, Sayoko and Takatsuki. Junpei loves Sayoko but is unable to express it, in the meanwhile Takatsuki who is more aggressive proposes Sayoko. Junpei is devastated but he masks his feeling. Takatuski and Sayoko get married and have a daughter named Sala. Junpei is still close to them. Opportunity to express his love again comes for Junpei as Sayoko and Takatsuki separate ways but Junpei still is not able to express his feelings. The earthquake jostles him and gives him the courage to pursue his love. If anyone wants to get introduced to the books of Murakami I feel that this book will be a great start to it. It has all the elements that Murakami largely uses. The characters are similar to the ones that he uses across his novels. This is a great book and like most books of Murakami it is one which demands your unwavering attention to realize the true pearls of beauty in it.

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