After the Quake

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Yoshiya is born to an eccentric single mother who is 'born again' after several unfortunate couplings. This was my first time reading Haruki Murakami's writing, and I was indeed more than intrigued and impressed.

As we watched the towers fall again and again on our televisions, our idea of what could and could not happen was forever changed. Even if you think this book isn’t in your normal wheelhouse (it wasn’t for me), perhaps you’ll really like it.After traveling through a scrap yard and several walls, they end up at a baseball field and the man vanishes. One was suggestive of great and transformative personal change spurred on by the realisation of how fleeting life can be, but it didn’t go anywhere. After the Quake was so brilliant that I didn't want the stories to end, and when they did, I felt like I was saying good-bye to a dear friend.

The stories in after the quake repeat motifs, themes, and elements common in much of Murakami's earlier short stories and novels, but also present some notable stylistic changes. Recitava Agostino d'Ippona che "vivere nel rancore è l'equivalente di bere un veleno e sperare che sia l'altro a morire". I love his indignation when he imagines someone denying that he is a frog: “ Anyone claiming I am not a frog would be a dirty liar.Entitled after the quake, the play was first performed at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in association with La Jolla Playhouse, and opened October 12, 2007 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.