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After the Quake
- Author
- Haruki Murakami
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 11 March 2021
- Run Time
- 4 hours 21 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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.'
© Haruki Murakami 2000 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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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 again
The Times
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Ushers 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. Dick
New York Times
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Dazzlingly 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 advantage
Guardian
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In 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 chance
Scotland on Sunday
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Murakami is a unique writer, at once restrained and raw, plainspoken and poetic
Washington Post
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A neat, yet somehow insanely generous collection..ruthless honesty, a faintly feminine openness, a seeming ability to find beauty and even glory in the banal, the urban, the modern... [the story] 'Honey Pie' isn't just a love story. It's a piece of writing about the threads and snags of time, the tangles, the way things pan out and why. I couldn't even begin to explain why I find it quite so moving and, in a sense, that's Murakami's magic. He speaks to a place so deep inside us that we can scarcely even reply
Daily Telegraph
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Beautifully nuanced stories, realistic snapshots of modern Japan enclosed in a fictional world that is seemingly trivial, but loaded with portent
Independent
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A really imaginative collection where all the stories are intertwined and mysterious in that Murakami way
Observer
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Murakami's storytelling inspires intimacy. It's the particular kind of intimacy that can evolve between a reader and a book, unspoken and unexpected, familiar, satisfying, strange.
Village Voice
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Even in the slipperiest of Mr Murakami's stories, pinpoints of detail flash out warm with life.
New York Times
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Details
- Author
- Haruki Murakami
- Narrator
- Adam Sims, Rupert Degas, Teresa Gallagher
- Duration
- 4 hours 21 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 March 2021
- ISBN
- 9781473596115
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Short stories, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: environmental issues / the natural world, Magical realism, Fiction in translation
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. 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.'© Haruki Murakami 2000 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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