AftertheQuake

Table of Contents Title Page Epigraph Praise ufo in kushiro landscape with flatiron all god’s children can dance thailand super-frog saves tokyo honey pie 1 2 About the Author books by haruki murakami Copyright Page “Liza! What was it yesterday, then?” “It was what it was.” “That’s impossible! That’s cruel!” —Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons radio: . . . garrison already decimated by the Vietcong, who lost 115 of their men . . . woman: It’s awful, isn’t it, it’s so anonymous. man: What is? woman: They say 115 guerillas, yet it doesn’t mean anything, because we don’t know anything about these men, who they are, whether they love a woman, or have children, if they prefer the cinema to the theatre. We know nothing. They just say . . . 115 dead. —Jean-Luc Godard, Pierrot le Fou acclaim for haruki murakami’s after the quake “Both mysterious and yet somehow quite familiar." —Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle “In these stories . . . Murakami proves himself to be almost as fantastic—and as heroic—as his creations.” —Elle “Trim, beautiful, diamond sharp, and profoundly layered in . . . mystical symbolism and daily absurdities.......