After the quake
by Murakami, Haruki
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- ISBN 10
- 1860469671
- ISBN 13
- 9781860469671
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About This Item
London: Harvill, 2000. 1st edition. Softcover. Not price clipped. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 132p. Summary: The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. And then the earthquake struck. For the characters in Murakami's latest short-story collection, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Subjects: Earthquakes -- Social aspects -- Fiction.Earthquakes -- Social aspects. Genre: Short Stories. Collection. Fiction.
Synopsis
after the quake (神の子どもたちはみな踊る, Kami no kodomo-tachi wa mina odoru) is a collection of short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. First published in 2000, it was released in English as after the quake in 2002 (translator Jay Rubin notes that Murakami "insisted" the title "should be all lower-case").
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 311936
- Title
- After the quake
- Author
- Murakami, Haruki
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1860469671
- ISBN 13
- 9781860469671
- Publisher
- London: Harvill
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
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