Sayoko turned her head just a bit, and the left hand came out holding a white bra—a small one with no wires.

However, by the end of the story they meant something to someone and they had done something "interesting" with their life. All these stories revolve around the idea of identity and this one is probably the most blatant about it, in which a man starts looking at his own after his wife leaves him. I discovered his work and read several in a row before I branched out looking for other authors from Japan. The earthquake is peripheral to each story at best and yet there is something decidedly central about its occurrence. This collection of stories was a sensitive and imaginative response to the devastation caused by the earthquake.Well told, well thought out and frankly a narrative I would have love to see more of, but still felt finished unlike the first story. None of the stories in this collection are directly connected with the disaster, though all of them are touched by it in one way or another. Watching coverage of the disaster on the news was something that came up in several stories, and I can imagine how that can compound this emotion.

All God's Children Can Dance is a rich story that sneaks up on you, knocks the reader off kilter, in the end makes one want to join in Yoshiya's dance. Tabata that he has incestuous feelings for his mother, but decided to hold back out of respect for his guide.I got up to run downstairs—completely forgetting that the top of the door frame came to the bridge of my nose.

Sala’s questions were always sharp and interesting, and while he was thinking about them he could also come up with new twists to the story. On her flight, the PA asks if anyone is a doctor; she thinks about reasons not to volunteer but ultimately does. 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.Overall I feel like I have to give it 3/5 stars, but still recommended for those who don't mind if the stories aren't completely wrapped up in a satisfactory manner. Despite my addiction to Murakami, this is actually a collection of unrelated short stories linked - somewhat tenuously sometimes- to the Kobe earthquake. Like a turtle pulling into its shell, she slipped her right hand up inside her sleeve, and then there was a light back-scratching kind of movement.

To tell the truth I feel a little bit unsettled about this book, because it is definitely new, strange and unusual for me. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man- a lover who destroyed her chances of having children. L'attaccamento alla vita precedente è l'anticamera della morte interiore; la morte del passato la scelta più dolorosa e necessaria per rinascere in un'altra esistenza e accettare che, alle volte, le cose cambiano assieme a noi; e forse a prescindere da noi. Both men are in love with the woman in the group, and when ends up with her, the other stays a constant part of both their lives. after the quake was the imaginative response from Japan's leading novelist, Haruki Murakami: six stories, each dealing not directly with the catastrophe but the wider seismic effect it had on the emotional lives of people many miles away.In ATQ, Murakami perfectly captures the disorientation and delirium of living through 1995 in Japan. The first, "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" (the title is self-explanatory, really), is the weirdest of the bunch. Tonkichi was caught in a trap and that is the reason he is in the zoo rather than living in the wild.