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after the quake by Frank Galati

trilobiter's review

3.0

There's not enough reading here to get that full-bodied Murakami flavor from the page, but I would very much like to see this staged and performed. I'm sure the frog would be a delight onstage, and some live human expressiveness would elevate the characters above a mere outline of the author's familiar tropes. I like the tight focus on the psychological aftermath of the Kobe earthquake - it keeps the story from feeling too much like parody. A bad adaptation of Murakami, focusing a little too hard on the beer and cigarettes and sexual regret, would not be worth the trouble.