- ASIN : Â 0099448564
- Publisher : Â RHUK (6 March 2003)
- Language : Â English
- Paperback : Â 144 pages
- ISBN-10 : Â 9780099448563
- ISBN-13 : Â 978-0099448563
- Reading age : Â Baby and up
- Item Weight : Â 106 g
- Dimensions : Â 19.3 x 12.7 x 1.27 cm
- Country of Origin : Â United Kingdom
- Condition : New
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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’Â The Times
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