After the Quake

Paperback, 144 pages

Published March 6, 2003 by Vintage.

ISBN:
978-0-09-944856-3
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Review of 'After the Quake' on 'Goodreads'

I am a big fan of Murakami, he can take you on a magical journey into a reality which could go in any direction and you are guaranteed to be left with many questions that you are able to answer with your own ideas after the story has finished…that is how it works with his full length novels. Short stories don’t work as well, the 6 stories in this collection are fantastic but they are not long enough, the characters don’t get a chance to develop and you just start to get intrigued when the story ends.

My favourite story was about the bloke who built bonfires on the beach, he really shows the art of building a good fire, but all that happens at the end is you are left wanting more…I was even left wanting more of the kids story within the last story in the book. I’m …

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Murakami presents to us a string of pearls - each one discoloured, chipped, deformed in some way, yet together regal and beautiful enough to adorn the throat of any nobility.

"The whole terrible fight occurred in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there that we experience our victories and defeats. Each and every one of us is a being of limited duration: All of us eventually go down to defeat."

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Subjects

  • Modern fiction
  • Short stories
  • Fiction