Murakami's evocations of grace and possible redemption are startling, dangerous, and moving.' O, The Oprah Magazine 'Haruki Murakami remains one of the most accessible Japanese writers for Western readers.' LA Times 'Spare yet richly mysterious and emotionally prismatic, these unpredictable tales explore the subtle ways the earthquake affected those who live far from its epicenter yet who are nonetheless shaken to their very core.Haunting.' Booklist (starred review) 'Murakami has written a series of deeply evocative stories.' Tulsa Today 'The stories here are well-crafted and lyrical. mystical symbolism and daily absurdities. Murakami proves himself to be almost as fantasticand as heroicas his creations.' Elle 'Trim, beautiful, diamond sharp, and profoundly layered in. Moving.' The New York Times Book Review 'Both mysterious and somehow quite familiar.' Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle 'In these stories. Murakami's crisp, accomplished stories in After the Quake have great immediacy.' The Seattle Times 'One of the great Japanese exports.' Details 'Unexpectedly powerful. 'Ushers the reader into a hallucinatory world where the real and surreal merge and overlap, where dreams and real-life nightmares are impossible to tell apart.' Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times 'His characters are so persuasive, and the storytelling so spacious.

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