After the Quake: Stories - Hardcover

Murakami, Haruki; Rubin, Jay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375413901 ISBN 13: 9780375413902

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2002

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Book by Murakami Haruki

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A collection of stories inspired by the January 1995 Kobe earthquake and poison gas subway attacks two months later takes place between the two disasters and follows the experiences of people who found their resolutely normal lives undone by surreal events. 25,000 first printing.

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physical and social landscape of Japan was transformed by two events: the Kobe earthquake, in January, which destroyed thousands of lives, and the poison-gas attacks in the Tokyo subways in March, during the morning rush hour. Following these twin disasters, Haruki Murakami abandoned his life abroad and returned home to confront his country’s grief. The subway attack led to his recent Underground. And out of the quake come these six stories, set in the months between natural catastrophe and man-made terrorism. His characters find their resolutely normal everyday lives undone by events even more surreal (yet somehow believable) than we have come to expect in his fiction.

An electronics salesman, abruptly deserted by his wife, is entrusted to deliver a mysterious package but gets more than he bargained for at the receiving end; a Thai chauffeur takes his troubled charge to a seer, who penetrates her deepest sorrow; and, in the unforgettable title story, a boy acknowledges a shatterin

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375413901
• ISBN 13: 9780375413902
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 181