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This collection of short stories was not my favorite. However, I did like UFO in Kushiro and Honey Pie.
After the Quake is a series of six short stories with one common element – they all take place after an earthquake in Kobe, Japan. I had high hopes for the collection, as I’m still quite smitten with Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore. Yet I found the stories in this offering dull and the characters flat – with one exception.
In “Landscape with Flatiron”, Murakami develops a character who cannot sleep with a refrigerator in her house for fear she will die in it. She describes her nightmare.
In “Landscape with Flatiron”, Murakami develops a character who cannot sleep with a refrigerator in her house for fear she will die in it. She describes her nightmare.
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I enjoy reading books by this author but these short stories just don't do it for me
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I didn't realize that I had actually already read this collection of stories, about six or seven years ago. Each story was like an echo; I remembered certain details but had forgotten almost everything in the book. It actually made for a better reading experience. Murakami writes about dreams a lot and reading this collection with an almost dream-like memory of them enhanced the reading experience for me.
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Quake adjacent. I liked the Eat, Pray, Love story.
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