After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
haruki murakami
after the quake
Born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949, Haruki Murakami grew up in Kobe and now lives near Tokyo. The most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe. His work has been translated into twenty-seven languages.
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books by haruki murakami
after the quake
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Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (nonfiction)
South of the Border, West of the Sun
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Dance Dance Dance
The Elephant Vanishes
Norwegian Wood
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
A Wild Sheep Chase
FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, MAY 2003
Copyright © 2002 by Haruki Murakami
Title page art: Moonscape © 2002 by Iris Weinstein
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“Super-Frog Saves Tokyo” was originally published in GQ. “Thailand” was originally published in Granta. “All God’s Children Can Dance” was originally published in Harper’s. “UFO in Kushiro” and “Honey Pie” were originally published in The New Yorker. “Landscape with Flatiron” was originally published in Ploughshares.
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.
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Contents: UFO in Kushiro—Landscape with flatiron—All god’s children can dance—Thailand—Super-frog saves Tokyo—Honey pie.
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