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
