After the Quake By Haruki Murakami Material:Soft Cover our movies—our imaginations—are obsessed with

our movies—our imaginations—are obsessed with extra dimensions

And though they succumb to the heat between them

it is failing us

we’re born to die

With humor and humility

After the Quake By Haruki Murakami Material:Soft Cover our movies—our imaginations—are obsessed withHaruki Murakami, a writer both mystical and hip, is the West's favorite Japanese novelist. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Murakami lived abroad until 1995. That year, two disasters struck Japan: the lethal earthquake in Kobe and the deadly poison gas attacks in the Tokyo subway. Spurred by these tragic events, Murakami returned home. The stories in After the Quake are set in the months that fell between the earthquake and the subway attack, presenting a