After the Quake

<b>*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, <i>THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS</i>, NOW*<br> <br> Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake.</b><br> <br> For the characters in <i>after the quake</i>, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man- did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away.<br> <br> Fourteen-year-old Sala has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box. Katagiri returns home to find a giant frog in his apartment on a mission to save Tokyo from a massive burrowing worm. 'When he gets angry, he causes earthquakes,' says Frog. 'And right now he is very, very angry.<br> <br> <b>'In a dance with the delights of Murakami's imagination we experience the limitless possibilities of fiction. With these stories Murakami expands our hearts and minds yet again' <i>The Times</i></b>