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A review by atlevine
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
3.0
3.75/5.00
After the Quake is comprised of six short stories - all of them related in some way to Japan's 1995 Kobe earthquake. According to Wikipedia, up to 6,434 people died from the earthquake and 4,600 of them were from Kobe. Haruki Murakami is of course a Japanese writer, and you can really feel the raw emotion within these stories. All the stories are all so different from one another, yet portray similar emotions like helplessness, emptiness, inevitability, loss, sadness.
Murakami is a master at writing in this dream-like style. Sometimes I read his work and seriously wonder if I haven't already experienced this story in one of my dreams. I've never read anything like it before.
I liked some stories more than others, (my favorite being Thailand), but overall it's a solid collection.
After the Quake is comprised of six short stories - all of them related in some way to Japan's 1995 Kobe earthquake. According to Wikipedia, up to 6,434 people died from the earthquake and 4,600 of them were from Kobe. Haruki Murakami is of course a Japanese writer, and you can really feel the raw emotion within these stories. All the stories are all so different from one another, yet portray similar emotions like helplessness, emptiness, inevitability, loss, sadness.
Murakami is a master at writing in this dream-like style. Sometimes I read his work and seriously wonder if I haven't already experienced this story in one of my dreams. I've never read anything like it before.
I liked some stories more than others, (my favorite being Thailand), but overall it's a solid collection.