HANNO DETTO SU AFTER THE QUAKE

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This new collection has lots to recommend it, but the finest story by far is Honey Pie. (...) I couldn't even begin to explain why I find it quite so moving and, in a sense, that's Murakami's magic. He speaks to a place so deep inside us that we can scarcely even reply.
Julie Myerson, Daily Telegraph


In these dazzlingly elegant stories, he restores some of the light and some of the meaning, arguing that the possibility of moments of optimism and connection is not something we should take for granted.
Alex Clark, The Guardian


But for all the apparent topicality, Murakami doesn't stray outside his rigorously delineated fictional world. (...) Admiration for his singleness of purpose vies with impatience at the repetitiveness and whimsy.
Robert Hanks, The Independent


Murakami isn't interested (or if he is, he doesn't show it in his fiction) in what earthquakes actually are, or in what causes them. He's more concerned with this particular quake's effects, and especially its emotional effects on people who experience it at one remove.
Thomas Jones, London Review of Books


The six stories in After the Quake are all related to the catastrophic Kobe earthquake of January 1995 -- not through the direct experience of victims but through the tremors that are felt, the cracks that open, in the lives of people seemingly at a safe remove. Americans should have no trouble empathizing with them after the shocks of Sept. 11.
Michael Harris, The Los Angeles Times


For readers unfamiliar with this writer's work, this slender volume, deftly translated by Jay Rubin, may serve as a succinct introduction to his imaginative world, embodying in miniature the pleasures and frustrations of his fiction: its ability to turn spiritual fatigue and other modern states of mind into resonant fables, as well as its tendency to devolve into whimsy and willful abstraction.
Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times


Unexpectedly powerful, a collection of stories, slender and small as a hand, about the emotional after-shocks of the 1995 earthquake in Kobe. (...) Even if After the Quake has nothing to say about Murakami, which it certainly does, I'd gladly settle for what it says about us.
Jeff Giles, The New York Times Book Review


For an author who has employed many daydreaming protagonists in his novels, Murakami’s message is clear: make hay before the next quake, because the next cataclysm is around the corner.
Jason Picone, Review of Contemporary Fiction


This is a slim book, but you'll need to read it twice. (...) This is breathtakingly close to a flawless book, but in a very modest way.
Laura Miller, Salon


That narrative action, that of the accidental turn, in this case the earthquake, that leads to new fortune, recurs in a number of these wonderfully inventive stories. (...) These stories, both mysterious and yet somehow quite familiar, may have the same effect on you, living, as we all are now, with the possibility of imminent disaster.
Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle


What makes him a great writer is not his ability to create characters that we could imagine meeting, their internal lives a blend of pop culture references and enigmatic angst, it is the way in which we are drawn into their world and become emotionally involved in their stories.
Matthew Crockatt, The Times


From the very beginning we are clearly in Murakami Land. (...) This change of consciousness is the subject of After the Quake, in which Murakami's fiction retains its imaginative integrity while putting on a more consoling and public face.
Christopher Taylor, Times Literary Supplement
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