After the Quake

Author Haruki Murakami
Narrator Adam Sims, Rupert Degas, Teresa Gallagher
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 11 March 2021
Run Time 4 hours and 21 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Fiction in translation, Magical realism, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Environmental issues, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Short stories.

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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

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

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

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

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

Murakami is a unique writer, at once restrained and raw, plainspoken and poetic

Washington Post

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

Beautifully nuanced stories, realistic snapshots of modern Japan enclosed in a fictional world that is seemingly trivial, but loaded with portent

Independent

A really imaginative collection where all the stories are intertwined and mysterious in that Murakami way

Observer

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

Even in the slipperiest of Mr Murakami’s stories, pinpoints of detail flash out warm with life.

New York Times

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