# After the Quake

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- Book: [After the Quake](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami/after-the-quake) ([After the Quake.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami/after-the-quake.md))
- Authors: [Haruki Murakami](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9944-856-3
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2012-10-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake. 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. '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