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A review by mrmysteryfox
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
4.0
Short stories all loosely connected to an earthquake in Kobe. As expected with Murakami a strange mix of topics and his common monikers (sadness, emptiness, jazz, the Beatles, whisky, talking animals, the subconscious). Enjoyed reading most of these stories only one that I wasn’t a fan of.
Like
#2 two run aways contemplating the emptiness they now feel in the warmth of a bonfire.
#3 weird story relating menopause to being closer to death and a women’s search for the meaning of existence
#4 Frog that saves Tokyo - perhaps a story of someone with PTSD from the Kobe quake
#5 bears, a love triangle and the earthquake man
Disliked
#1 a tale of loss - metaphored with a UFO abduction..
To remember
On living in the moment
“The trouble is, I don’t have a damn thing to do with anything 50,000 years ago – or 50,000 years from now, either. Nothing. Zero. What’s important is now. Who knows when the world is gonna end?”
A bad hangover
“A foul sludge was oozing from his rotting gums and eating away at his brain from the inside.”
Like
#2 two run aways contemplating the emptiness they now feel in the warmth of a bonfire.
#3 weird story relating menopause to being closer to death and a women’s search for the meaning of existence
#4 Frog that saves Tokyo - perhaps a story of someone with PTSD from the Kobe quake
#5 bears, a love triangle and the earthquake man
Disliked
#1 a tale of loss - metaphored with a UFO abduction..
To remember
On living in the moment
“The trouble is, I don’t have a damn thing to do with anything 50,000 years ago – or 50,000 years from now, either. Nothing. Zero. What’s important is now. Who knows when the world is gonna end?”
A bad hangover
“A foul sludge was oozing from his rotting gums and eating away at his brain from the inside.”