After the Quake

Informationen zum Autor In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing , won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World , but it was Norwegian Wood , published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle , 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women , Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers. Klappentext Latest collection of stories in papaerback from Haruki Murakami, who is now widely regarded as one of the world's greatest living writers - which dissects the violence beneath the surface of modern Japan. "Murakami is a remarkable writer and remarkable things tend to befall the protagonists of his stories...he captures the common ache of the contemporary heart and head" Jay McInerny. Zusammenfassung Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake. For the characters in after the quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago.

Product details

• Authors: Haruki Murakami
• Assisted by: Jay Rubin (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage, London
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9780099448563
• ISBN: 978-0-09-944856-3
• No. of pages: 132
• Weight: 110 g
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Japanische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Japan, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Fiction in translation, Magical Realism, Narrative theme: Environmental issues, Narrative theme: Love and relationships