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... Time of Cholera (darn touchstones!) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which I've been meaning to read.
From mine I recommend After the Quake by Haruki Murakami, a book of short stories that is a pretty good introduction to his work if you haven't read him. I saw some of the stories adapted as ... November:
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
The Major Works by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Original of ... November:
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
The Major Works by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Original of ... ... Violet - Christopher Isherwood (Reviewed)
June: To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
July: after the quake - Haruki Murakami
August: Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Laclos
September: The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness
... Le fusil de chasse
Yasunari Kawabata : Thousand Cranes, Kyoto
Yukio Mishima : La mort en ete
Haruki Murakami : After the Quake
Natsume Soseki : And Then: Natsume Soseki's Novel Sorekara
Akiyuki Nosaka : La tombe des lucioles
Kenzaburo Oe : Nip the buds, Shoot the kids
Shohe ... ... Authors: To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
6. Prize Winners: The Diviners, by Margaret Laurence
7. 1001 Books: after the quake, by Haruki Murakami
8. Books for My Trip to England and Italy: Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
9. Non-fiction: The Purity Myth: How America's Obsess ... oops, posted in the wrong place :) ...
49 Life of Pi
50 The Feast of the Goat
52 The Devil and Miss Prym
54 White Teeth
63 The Blind Assassin
64 After the Quake
71 The Romantics on Mount TBR
77 Disgrace
78 Sputnik Sweetheart
80 Intimacy
81 Amsterdam
85 Tipping the Velvet
86 The Poisonwood Bible ... ... - Cornelia Funke (FlossieT)
iv) Tam Lin - Pamela Dean (suslyn)
v) The Winter Queen - Boris Akunin (avatiakh)
vi) after the quake - Haruki Murakami (work collegue)
vii) The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (everyone)
viii) The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness
... ... (suslyn) ***1/2 msg229
v) The Winter Queen - Boris Akunin (avatiakh) msg16, thread 2
vi) after the quake - Haruki Murakami (work collegue) msg43, thread 2
vii) The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (everyone) msg67, thread 2
Lined ... ... Le fusil de chasse
Yasunari Kawabata : Thousand Cranes, Kyoto
Yukio Mishima : La mort en ete
Haruki Murakami : After the Quake
Natsume Soseki : And Then: Natsume Soseki's Novel Sorekara
Akiyuki Nosaka : La tombe des lucioles
Kenzaburo Oe : Nip the buds, Shoot the kids
Shohe ... ... I did finish the Titan's Curse but have not read The Battle of the Labyrinth yet.
I read Murakami's short stories After the Quake on the airplane and I have read a couple of biographies of Isadora Duncan.
I just started my early reviewers book Daphne fiction about Daphne Du Maurier ... ... is Wrong has been duly added to my wishlist (and Dandelion Wine bumped up the TBR pile)...
It's interesting, I read after the quake fairly recently too and I'll second the two stories you highlight as being the best in the book (I think I may have even said so in my post, I'll have to ... 15. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
16. after the quake by Haruki Murakami
I was working my way very slowly through the Dispossessed for a while. The book wasn't really gripping me, but I think that it was just because I was working too much and didn't have time to read. Once I ... ... my TBR list too! And since the only Murakami that I have read is What I Talk about When I Talk about Running, I may try after the quake as well. 56) after the quake: stories by Haruki Murakami--I read my first Murakami, Kafka on the Shore, last year and found it about 20% enjoyable, 80% frustrating (I hated the dialogue, for one thing). So I was ready to swear off Murakami, but I thought I'd give him another shot--hence, after ... Great pics from Rome. Looks like you had fun despite the heat. Thanks for the reviews of The Flood and After the Quake. I'm adding them both to the wishlist.
How's the allotment coming along? ... - J. K. Rowling
(not 999)
Again, not much to say about this, as it's a re-read. Always enjoyable.
65) after the quake - Haruki Murakami
999 Category 9 - Recommendations (someone at work) (6/9)
A collection of short stories following Japan's 1995 Kobe earthquake - ... ... ng:
60) Sharpe's Battle - Bernard Cornwell
61) White - Marie Darrieussecq
62) The Flood - Maggie Gee
63) After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
64) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
65) Seeing - José Saramago
...and I'm feeling guiltier ... ... the others I've read are:
Kafka on the Shore - 9
South of the Border, West of the Sun - 9
Sputnik Sweetheart - 8
After the Quake (short stories) - 7
At this point in writing this post I went off and read your (wonderful) review of said book, and see that you also used the word 'capt ... ... Oe
*The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
And possibly, if I'm feeling really ambitious, I'll also bring:
*After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
*The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon I like all of his writing, and would put Kafka on the Shore, Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and After the Quake at the top of my list.
But if you liked South of the Border, West of the Sun so much, you might like Norwegian Wood as a follow-up. It doesn't have the surreal elements of many of ... ... non-fiction Underground and the new one on running. Out of those, I particularly also like the short story collection After the Quake, set in the aftermath of the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Books 101 - 110 (please excuse the slight overlap from the list above).
101. after the quake
102. Return of the Soldier
103. Jacob's Room
104. Vile Bodies
105. Great Expectations
106. Parades' End
107. Veronika Decides to Die
108. Where Angels Fear to Tread
109. The Shipp ... ... Times of the Thunderbolt Kid sounds fantastic, its now in my mountain too !! Can't wait to read if you like it!
25) After the Quake by Haruki Murakami 147 pages
My first Murakami, and he is a fantastic writer. I understand what the fuss was about. I liked this collection of stories ... From my trip to the library book sale.
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
The Careful Use of Compliments by Alexander Mccall Smith
Girl in Hyacinth Blu by Susan Vreeland
A Killing in Antques by Bill Knox
Talk before Sleep by ... ... this to Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, which is very much way out there. I would definitely recommend after the quake - there are some great storeies in there.
Thanks for saying that you agree with my comment about his writing style. I knew what I meant but found it ... I am in Maine, 2009, and reading After the Quake by Haruki Murakami, a collection of short stories relating to lives after the earthquake in Kobe, 1995. For Murakami fans: I have a copy of After the Quake. It's an ex-library copy, in very good condition. It's a small hard-back. Send me a message! ... The Corrections -- Jonathan Franzen
12) Choke -- Chuck Palahniuk
13) The Blind Assassin -- Margaret Atwood
14) after the quake: stories -- Haruki Murakami
15) Disgrace -- J. M. Coetzee
16) Amsterdam -- Ian McEwan
17) The Hours — Michael Cunningham
18) Veronika Decides ... ... Soldier, Rebecca West
6. Parliament of Fowls, Legend of Good Women, & The Book of the Duchess, Geoffrey Chaucer
5. after the quake, Haruki Murikami
4. The General, CS Forester
3. Larry's Party, Carol Shields
2. Helen of Troy, Margaret George
1. Fruit: a Novel about a Boy and H ... I love short stories as well. Murakami has other books of short stories (Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman; After the Quake). I haven't read them yet, though. Do look for them. ... read after the quake by Haruki Murakami, but also Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb. How many worlds apart they are!
after the quake consists of stories in which each character experiences a "quake" of some description, although the title ostensibly arises because all the stories are set ... 91. The Poisonwood Bible, 2008
92. The Ground Beneath Her Feet, 2007
93. After the Quake, 2009
94. Atonement, 2006
95. Unless, 2002
96. Family Matters, 2008
97. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, 2004
98. Adjunct: an Undigest, 2006
99. Saturday, 2006
100. ... After the Quake is very good, but a bit atypical (if it's fair to describe any give book by Murakami w/ that adjective.) I happen to think he's at his very best in his novels Kafka on the Shore and the Wind-up Bird Chronicles being, perhaps, maybe, possibly....my favorites.. BUT there's a ... Haven't read Sputnik Sweetheart, but I just read my first Murakami (after the quake), and I want to read more of him. His writing style was very easy. I have read The Reader, which I was expecting to be boring, and it was a very pleasant surprise. For one, it was really engrossing. One of ... I think it took me about three hours to read After the Quake, so a very reasonable time investment to give him a whirl. Hope you like it. ... pages, The Heart of Darkness is one of the longest books I ever read.
And talking about quick reads, I just finished after the quake by Haruki Murakami, and it took me about three hours. I like to find these quick ones that I can fit in around all the other reading I have to do. after the quake, Haruki Murakami
A volume of six short stories, published in English in 2006.
1) How did your book get its title?
Each story takes place in the month after the 1995 Kobe earthquake.
2) Did you learn anything new about Japan from reading the book you chose?
Hmmm. Not ... 28. after the quake, by Haruki Murakami, Japan
This is a collection of six short stories that all take place in Japan in the month after the 1995 Kobe earthquake. None of the characters are directly involved in the quake, but all have some tie to Kobe. The stories are all rather ... 5. after the quake*, by Haruki Murakami
Japanese literature, 2002
This is a collection of six short stories that all take place in Japan in the month after the 1995 Kobe earthquake. None of the characters are directly involved in the quake, but all have some tie to Kobe. The stories are all ... 5. after the quake, Haruki Murakami
Category: 1001 Books
Comments at: Post #33 5. after the quake*, by Haruki Murakami
Japanese literature, 2002
This is a collection of six short stories that all take place in Japan in the month after the 1995 Kobe earthquake. None of the characters are directly involved in the quake, but all have some tie to Kobe. The stories are all ... I'm just about finished After the Quake by Haruki Murakami. I finished Sarraounia and inexpertly reviewed it but thought it was a good read. Then read Murakami's after the quake, short stories set after the Kobe earthquake but really focussing on "quakes" in normal people's lives and how they try to deal with them.
I've now started the rather large T ... #210 I would agree with that - after the quake would be a good intro because there's a range of different kinds of stories.
That said, After Dark inspired me, because it's short and a bit surreal but not overwhelming like some of them.
If you want straight fiction to give you an idea of ... ... i agree with the comments that Kafka may not be the best one to start with. i recommend one of his short story collections After The Quake, instead. ... and the French colonials and have been spending brief snatches of time with people in Japan trying to make sense of life after the quake. ... it was my first. I would agree that Kafka on the Shore is not a good place to start. Also enjoyed his short stories in after the quake, aswell as Sputnik Sweetheart which was a bit like Norwegian Wood but slightly more surreal. I found The Wind Up Bird Chronicle quite gruesome and ... ... so I found these at the library today: Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, Sailor Who Feel From Grace With the Sea, and After the Quake. School has started and I don't really have time for this read, but I'd like to read them all. ... it feels a little bit like cheating, as I started this book before 2009, here's my first completed read of 2009:
#1: After the Quake by Haruki Murakami The first 1001 book of 2009- I am aiming for at least 20 this year:
118. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
ETA: I am keeping to the original 1001 list, as that's the book I bought. Although I do like the updated version as it's more international and I welcome the changes, I'm sticking ... ... in time to discuss it in January. So as a result I will probably wuss out and read the other Japanese book in my TBR pile: After the Quake, a Murakami.
Another novel people might want to consider reading is Silence by Shusaku Endo, which I found to be quite a powerful and perplexing read. I ... ...
14) Dai Sijie : Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress)
15) Haruki Murakami : Après le tremblement de terre (After the Quake)
16) Yasunari Kawabata : Kyoto (The Old Capital)
17) Fumiko Enchi : The Waiting Years
18) Masuji Ibuse : Black Rain
... ... (Read in July, in Dutch)
8. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (Read in June, in Dutch)
9. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami (Read in March) EX: The House of the Dead, After the Quake, Brideshead Revisited, Casino Royale, Sons and Lovers, "Brokeback Mountain", Amadeus, O Pioneers!, The Odyssey, Day 5. Books from the 1001 List
1. after the quake, Haruki Murakami (Jan 12)
2. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (Mar 4)
3. Parade's End, Ford Maddox Ford (March 31)
4. Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho (April 11)
5. The Graduate, Charles Webb (May 31)
6. Oranges are ... ... /08
The Sun King ***½
by Nancy Mitford
11/12/08
The House of the Dead ***½
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
11/14/08
After the Quake (#285) ****
by Haruki Murakami
11/14/08 ... read! And if you like Murakami (or split on your decision as I have from two of his novels), try his short story collection After the Quake. ... surreal side so if you're looking for something a bit more down to earth I also recommend A Pale View of the Hills and After the Quake. ... potent blend of Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. Simply incredible and worthy of the Pulitzer.
I also wrapped up After the Quake by Haruki Murakami. It's a collection of stories about people dealing (more psychological) with the after-effects, of a major earthquake. It's a good ... After the Quake, Adam Bede was out running After Dark, All Around Town trying to remember when life had been full of All Things Bright and Beautiful. #10 and #13, thank for the comments on Murakami...Tim has After the Quake and afka on the Shore so I will give one of them a go. I don't do magical realism though!! (Perhaps I should open my mind a crack).
... such a strange wonderful journey, that I didn't care. I'm now reading a slim volume of short stories by Murakami called After the Quake and it's pretty decent so far. ... Canning !
Next up: The Known World by Edward P. Jones. It's a Pulitzer winner from 2004. I also plan to squeeze in After the Quake by Haruki Murakami, it's a slim short story collection. My Murakami quest continues! Okay, we're up to number 132 today (and, of course, still reading):
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Marya: A Life by Joyce Carol Oates
Again, all from the 1001 Must Read list (our book group is reading Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Pier, one of my all-time ... All of the stories in After the Quake are good: Murakami is a pro, and he remains the best there is (though Paul Auster is a contender) at seamlessly blending the mundane and the uncanny. The stories I like the best are the ones that seem—I stress: seem—to owe the most to the simple ... Finished After The Quake by Murakami and greatly enjoyed this set of six stories. I have always been enthralled by other works of Murakami, but these stories were a delightful addition for me.
Nearly finished with Marya by Joyce Carol Oates and not sure if I would recommend it. Well ... Just finished Memento Mori by Muriel Spark (recommended) and into After the Quake by Haruki Murakami and some non-list books. ... and I'll be starting One Good Turn soon. Is the new book have anything to do with the last two?
From Half.com, used: After the Quake by Haruki Murakami. I'm slowly building a library of this incredible writer!
Bookmooch: The Wrong Kind of Blood byDeclan Hughes. A much lauded Iri ... ... solace of open spaces gretel ehlich
the solace of leaving early haven kimmel
after leaving mr mackenzie jean rhys
after the quake haruki murkami 15 After the Quake by Haruki Murakami. Loved these stories, almost as much as Norwegian Wood. Reviewed it so won't go on about it any more here! I am looking forward to hearing what you think of After The Quake - this for me was the best of his short story collections. In fact, after finishing it I turned straight back to the front and started reading it again. ... Seventy Seven
Celestial Harmonies
City of God
How the Dead Live
The Human Stain
The Blind Assassin
After the Quake
Small Remedies
Super-Cannes
House of Leaves
Blonde
Pastoralia
Timbuktu
The Romantics
Cryptonomicon
As If I Am Not There
Everythi ... ... and also enjoyed Kafka on the Shore very much. Since then I've read Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, After the Quake and South of the Border, West of the Sun. I also have most of his other translated books TBR! =D
... it was great. I've got a few others of his at home in the TBR (Kafka on the Shore, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and After the Quake). So I'm still in the process of becoming a fan, but I'm definitely headed that direction! ... Drabble
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell (hello, bargain books!),
and by Haruki Murakami,
After the Quake and Kafka on the Shore
I couldn't resist The Lace Reader after seeing the lot of you rave about it (and you all generally have good taste). And ... 27. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
  Latest review for After the Quake is up on LT and the blog:
http://50book2007.blogspot.com/
Cheers! Oooo - is this After The Quake by Murakami? I'm sure it is! ... Carter's The Bloody Chamber on LT. Read it, then bought an omnibus with three of Carter's novels, this one included.
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami: I left the apartment without a book (oh no!), and my husband decided he wanted to hang outside for a while after we ate. So I went ... ... Louise Stevenson
The Pearl, Of Mice and Men, and others by John Steinbeck
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Some longer reads, for a free day:
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Kokoro by Na ... Last few days: After the Quake by Haruki Murakami (pretty good, though I still like most of his novels better), and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin.
Today I'm starting The Famished Road by Ben Okri. #56: After the Quake by Haruki Murakami. I actually finished a book of short stories--unfortunately, it wasn't one of the many I already owned & needed to complete. :) I found these stories to be generally less enigmatic (and somewhat simpler) than the stories in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. ... ... to locate copies of those originally listed.
Rather than House of Stairs I'll be reading Little Brother
rather than After the Quake I'll be reading After Dark
(edited for touchstones - they really don't like me today so I removed them) ... able to locate copies originally listed.
Rather than House of Stairs I'll be reading Little Brother
rather than After the Quake I'll be reading After Dark ... Pirate Freedom). And that's not even mentioning the other books that I've had out from the library for a year and a day (After the Quake, The Turn of the Screw, and The Double) or The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which I never finished, not because I didn't like it but because such a big ... ... a Geisha
3. An Artist of the Floating World
4. Grotesque
5. After the Quake
6. Grass for His Pillow
7. Brilliance of the Moon
8. Kafka on the Shore Gave up on the audio version of after the quake by Haruki Murakami - just not my taste. That bad part is that this was highly recommended by a very good friend. I hate when that happens! She and I usually have very similar taste, but we all have our quirks. ... back when it was released as a serial and you had to wait a week for the next installment. Good stuff.
I abandoned after the quake - just not my style. I'll be starting Creepers on audio on the way home tonight. 20. after the quake by Haruki Murakami
I hesitate to include this one, because I only got about 3/4 of the way through before abandoning it. I have some friends who adore his stuff, but this really wasn't my taste. ... The War of the End of the World this week. Will start Stardust tonight for my bedside reading.
#138 How do u like After the Quake? I read it recently and found it more interesting than his other short story collection Blind Woman, Sleeping Willow. Working my way through The 19th Wife - only 300 pages to go! Also listening to after the quake on audio for my commute book. ... Hopefully, mine will be showing up soon.
Came home from the library with some new audiobooks for my commute:
after the quake by Haruki Murakami
Creepers by David Morrell I read a short story the other day, The Garden Party, to jumpstart my 1001 reading again. Finished after the quake today, and I just started Thursbitch, though that one is quite a slow read (despite only being 150 pages or so). ... ll-written.
Oh, and I started Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (not on the list, I know, but I also have After the Quake out from the library, to be read if I like the latter.) Seems okay so far, but then, I'm only a chapter or so in. ... to read, but at times, the dialogues all sound a bit too contrived, and the storytelling a bit telenovela-like.
18. After the Quake: Stories by Haruki Murakami - very slim volume of 6 stories, completely unrelated except for the fact that the characters' lives have been in one way or ... ... Stephenson
The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
City of God by E.L. Doctorow for the 1% challenge
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami for the 1% challenge
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan for the 1% challenge Finally, my timing is on. I read After The Quake, didn't really do much for me though. A couple of the stories were okay.
I'll go with one of my favorite scifi authors, and a book well worth reading:
The Day of the Triffids
-- M1001 ... having any luck am I! I could have sworn it was on the list...
Sigh...stupid faulty memory. Ok...third time lucky. After The Quake by Haruki Murakami? ... ****
~ b. The Wild Geese ****½
~ c. The Master of Go ****
~ d. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion ***½
~ e. After the Quake ***½
8. Brazil - The Alchemist **
Extra Credit: Speculative Fiction {complete}
1. Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami **½
2. Neverwher ... ... The Corrections -- Jonathan Franzen
12) Choke -- Chuck Palahniuk
13) The Blind Assassin -- Margaret Atwood
14) after the quake: stories -- Haruki Murakami
15) Disgrace -- J. M. Coetzee
16) Amsterdam -- Ian McEwan
17) The Hours — Michael Cunningham
18) Veronika Decides ... 95. Austenland by Shannon Hale
96. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami ... insight into contemporary Japanese culture I would recommend Norwegian Wood and some of his short story collections like After The Quake. For a bit of fun, try A Wild Sheep Chase.
The other Murakami, Ryu Murakami, is also a good entry point into contemporary Japanese fiction. The one ... ... : La Favorite (The Favorite)
3) Nosaka Akiyuki : La tombe des lucioles (Grave of the Fireflies)
4) Haruki Murakami : Après le tremblement de terre (After the Quake)
5) Fumiko Enchi : The Waiting Years
6) Masuji Ibuse : Black Rain
... and 1 book from China.
1) Dai Sijie : Balz ... ...
6. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
7. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
8. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Books that were replaced on the list
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Saturday by Ian McEwan ...
14) Dai Sijie : Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress)
15) Haruki Murakami : Après le tremblement de terre (After the Quake)
16) Yasunari Kawabata : Kyoto (The Old Capital)
17) Fumiko Enchi : The Waiting Years
18) Masuji Ibuse : Black Rain
1 ... ... Men, Women, and the World - Liza Mundy (NF); The Farthest Shore (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 3) - Ursula K. LeGuin (F); After the Quake: Stories - Haruki Murakami (F-SS). Also still continuing with Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason - Jessica Warner (NF); The Intellectu ... ... Shore (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 3) - Ursula K. LeGuin (F) and the rest of the series, which I now have from the library, After the Quake: Stories - Haruki Murakami (F-SS), Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) - Stephanie Meyer (F). I'll be starting After the Quake by Haruki Murakami either today or tomorrow. I really loved After Dark, so I've made it my goal for 2008 to explore more of his writing. ... (short fiction) (a re-read)
(6) For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories - Nathan Englander (short fiction)
(7) After the Quake: Stories – Haruki Murakami (short fiction)
(8) Blow-Up and Other Stories – Julio Cortazar (short fiction)
This space used to contain the full category list, but there got to be too many touchstones, so I've broken them out into individual entries below and decided to delete this one. ... it may not be. Sometimes authors write books with similar sounding titles. For example, Haruki Murakami has both After the Quake and After Dark.
Does anyone know anything about this one? ... decided yet which Murakami books you're going to go for?
He's one of my favourite authors, and my favourites are After the Quake (a small book of short stories), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and The Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (I was once reading this on a coach ... OCTOBER
33. after the quake, by Haruki Murakami
Another worthwhile read from Murakami! The common thread in the stories in this collection is the Kobe earthquake, but in each, the characters are deeply touched by the event in different ways. While I enjoy his novels more than his short ... "Nah," Yoshiya said.
- All God's Children Can Dance, from after the quake by Haruki Murakami
... Dance Dance Dance just as well! It's currently my favorite Haruki Murakami book.
Speaking of whom, I started After the Quake this afternoon for my lunch break reading. I read the first story (UFO in Kushiro) and already I'm hooked by Murakami's haunting tone.
I finished Haruki Murakami's short story collection After the Quake yesterday and just finished Yasunari Kawabata's "The Old Capital" a few minutes ago. Both very good. 15) Haruki Murakami: Après le tremblement de terre
(After the Quake)
****
I finished this a while ago but due to my move to Colorado (omg, graduate school!) I've been without internet to post. I've also been without time to read so the book I'm reading right now is a short one as well. A ... I just moved to Colorado (graduate school, omg!) so I'm still on my book. While moving though, I did get to finish After the Quake by Haruki Murakami and will have to post a review soon. I have been without internet for a week and half so it has been hard to keep in touch.
So yes, halfway ... ... it in English. XD
I'm still on my book so don't choose for me quite yet. While moving though, I did get to finish After the Quake by Haruki Murakami and will have to post a review soon. I have been without internet for a week and half so it has been hard to keep in touch.
So ... Received as an advance birthday gift from a friend: After the Quake by Haruki Murakami.
Yesterday, received as an advance birthday gift from a friend: After the Quake, by Haruki Murakami.
>266 Oooh, would be really interested to hear your thoughts on After the Quake, it's one I've been wondering about reading! ... Elephant Vanishes.
BTW, the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, near the UC Berkeley campus, will be featuring a play based on After the Quake this fall (Oct 12 to Nov 25). In Japan:
Huraki Murakami's After The Quake which is a collection of stories that touch that sense of modern anomie and alienation that any city dweller in today's world has experienced...we are all on the same planet, connected and trying to survive with meaning and connectiveness. Huraki Murakami's After The Quake which is a collection of stories that touch that sense of modern anomie and alienation that any city dweller in today's world has experienced...we are all on the same planet, connected and trying to survive with meaning and connectiveness. Taken at the Flood: Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie
After the Quake: Stories by Haruki Murukami
Monsoon by Wilbur Smith
Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
... probably suggest Sputnik Sweetheart which I enjoyed but is pretty much Murakami-by-numbers. I wasn't bowled over by after the quake either if I am honest.
Although, it must be said that a less-than-wonderful Murakami novel is usually miles better than other writers at their best. ... the Shore which I liked a lot (guess that one should have tipped me off). I've also recently read Dance Dance Dance and After the Quake, Stories.
I hope you enjoy Nightwood. It's a wonderful book, one I should probably reread soon. ... America: Philip Roth -American Pastoral
South America: Jorge L. Borges -Labyrinths
Asia: Haruki Murakami -After THe Quake
Europe:Milan Kundera-The Unbearable Lightness of Being ... Related Fiction.
Tell us the author and title, and maybe a comment or review about it.
I just finished:
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
I'm really enjoying reading his books! I'm so glad I found him through everyone here. Thanks!
... whole thing made her go grey overnight, unable to play the piano, and changed the direction of her life.
I'm reading After the quake and while the first story-UFO in Kushiro threw me off, as it's seemed shorter than a short story should be, and a snippet, Banana Yoshimoto style but ... ... - (being a sequel to Wild Sheep Chase) - the best written and most engaging.
Opinicus: I would recommend finishing the After the Quake stories. Though not all brilliant, there are gems. I particularly like the one about the fire on the beach, although I cannot for the life of me think of ... ... Murakami through Norwegian Wood which remains my favourite till today. I liked Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman and after the quake but didn't care much for The Elephant Vanishes. I liked Kafka on the Shore but I thought the second-half of the book dragged on far far too longer than ... I'm 2/3 or so the way through Murakami's short sotries, After the Quake. Not as good as The Elephant Vanishes.
on Murakami, I enjoyed immensely The Elephant Vanishes but I'm finding After the Quake less exciting.
The freshest, most imaginitive, most original short stories I've read in years though were Victor Pelevin's The Blue Lantern.
I've just started Murakami's After the Quake. I need a Murakami fix after a few months away and I was in the mood for some short stories too.
I have acopy of After the Quake by Murakami...did you read it?
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