Name: After the Quake
Rating: 3.700854700854701 (117 reviews)
ISBN: 9781448103645

Haruki Murakami

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. ** Murakami’s new novel is coming ** COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE 'The reason why death had such a hold on Tsukuru Tazaki was clear. One day his four closest friends, the friends he’d known for a long time, announced that they did not want to see him, or talk with him, ever again.'

After the Quake

The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. And then the earthquake struck. 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: a lover who destroyed her chances of having children. Did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Junpei's estranged parents live in Kobe. Should he contact them? 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.'This new collection of stories, from one of the world's greatest living writers, dissects the violence beneath the surface of modern Japan.

Reading one at a time I found myself forgetting with each story that the earthquake would be a character, until he was introduced. At first this collection wasn’t my favorite, but by the end I’m convinced it’s one of his best. The final story, honey pie, was beautiful.

Taylor Griffin

Riley

kayla 

At this point, Murakami stories have become my calming tea. 

Frederik De Bosschere

a prototype of murakami’s following books

Pasha Avindra

Haritlak Thawikasikam

My favorite one is the fire camping and a boy who love Pearl Jam

Midori Kobayashi

some of these stories hit right on the spot,,, typical Murakami jam <3

Nick Gracilla

This is a great introduction to Murakami's unique voice. At once lyrical, concise, fantastic, unsettling: these six short stories will pleasantly haunt your thoughts well after you've finished reading them.

Pavonini

It's a long time since I've read a Murakami, and I'd forgotten how much I love his books. These were beautiful short stories, poignant and complete. He's so good at painting a living portrait with people you can understand almost immediately. I don't know how he does it. 

Excellent.

雪 xue

Sarah Escorsa

I just finished reading these stories and I must say that, of all the Murakami books I've read, this is my least favourite. I was never able to get into the stories and found them quite boring. Murakami's writing style is still as impeccable as ever but it just wasn't enough...

Milk

There was only one of the short stories that I really enjoyed, whilst the others remained good, but to me - not overwhelmingly good. They didn't make much of an impression besides being written well.

Caroline Mao

oh WOW. definitely the best short story collection ive ever read (ive read like 2.5 but thats not the point). eep it was just really good. surreal in its murakami way and Very Good

and im glad it ended on a happy note :o

Carina Almeida

Šárka Vomelová

I'm not sure how to rate this yet but I really enjoyed the short stories thailand and honey pie. The others were not my favourites really, although they were definitely very intriguing and well written, which was no surprise to me. 
This is the first short story collection by Murakami that I've read so I cannot really say much. But so far I've enjoyed his novels much more. However, I'm surely going to pick up another short story collection soon.  

Kath Lau

The 1995 Kobe earthquake is the backdrop of the six stories in this collection. The characters are not directly affected by the earthquake but it makes a huge change and impact on their lives. My favorites are Thailand, Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, and Honey Pie.

Katherine

I'm a big fan of Murakami, and I have to say this is probably the least interesting of his works that I've read. I really liked the thematic connection of the work and I thought it was an interesting and unique way of tying the stories together, but UFO in Kushiro and Super Frog Saves Tokyo are the only stories that really stuck with me at all after reading.

Mario Menti 

Ben Nathan

Wonderfully written, as all of his stuff is. Some stories I was totally into, some I was just ok with. All said and done, a good read.

Sonia Flores

Solo he leído dos títulos de Murakami y todavía no estoy segura acerca de él. Su narrativa es muy ligera y me gusta, pero en ocasiones (y hasta ahora me ha pasado con sus dos libros, no sé sobre los que vaya a leer después) me inquietan algunas escenas que parecen dispuestas ahí porque sí. O sea, como que sus libros siempre tienen que tener esas escenas extrañas y casi absurdas de sexo que no me llegan a cuadrar muy bien y sobre otros temas que... bueno, yo qué sé, esta cultura en general se me hace un poquito rara, pero sin ir más allá... Quedémonos con que pese a que la literatura asiática no es lo mío, Murakami se las trae.
Ahora, sus personajes, aunque bastante excéntricos en su mayoría, suelen ser bastante profundos, y esas reflexiones existenciales de vez en cuando me llegan, otras simplemente me gustan. En fin, que su manera de narrar las cosas es muy suave y tranquila que provoca leer y termino pronto con sus obras.

Este en particular me ha gustado bastante por la variedad de escenarios y cómo logra que la trama no sea lo primordial para el lector. El personaje lo es. El desenvolvimiento, lo irreal de sus vivencias pese a lo común de ellas. Es todo muy fascinante. Lo curioso es que es taaan (sí, con tres "a") común lo que cuenta, que no acabo de explicarme por qué atrapa tanto, si incluso a veces se me antoja cliché.

Y acabo enredada con mi propia reseña reiterando lo que al principio mencioné.
Todavía no estoy cien por cien segura, pero y qué. Me ha gustado mucho. Lo que sea. Que alguien me ayude.

Yeldah Yousfi

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”
This is my second Murakami novel and it was filled with story stories, all which were surreal and fascinating. There wasn’t much plot in the novels but rather a board for his characters to exist in. 
His characters were kinda weird for my taste but some of them were interesting to read about even though you don’t like the character. 
“The whole terrible fight occurred in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.”
Overall: It was weird, magical, and surreal with a touch of contemporary. It’s a perfect read for first starting with Murakami’s novels. 
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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