“Trim, beautiful, diamond sharp, and profoundly layered in… mystical symbolism and daily absurdities. Murakami’s evocations of grace and possible redemption are startling, dangerous, and moving.”
“Haruki Murakami remains one of the most accessible Japanese writers for Western readers.”
“Spare yet richly mysterious and emotionally prismatic, these unpredictable tales explore the subtle ways the earthquake affected those who live far from its epicenter yet who are nonetheless shaken to their very core…. Haunting.”
“The stories here are well-crafted and lyrical…. They are sometimes absurd, sometimes quite funny, but they all have real epiphanies and real moments of feeling.”
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FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, MAY 2003
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“Super-Frog Saves Tokyo” was originally published in
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows: Murakami, Haruki
[Kami no kodomo-tachi wa mina odoru. English]
After the quake: stories / Haruki Murakami; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.—1st American ed.
p. cm.
Contents: UFO in Kushiro—Landscape with flatiron—All god’s children can dance—Thailand—Super-frog saves Tokyo—Honey pie.
eISBN: 978-0-307-42464-8
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