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After the Quake by Murakami Haruki
Category: Fiction | Series: HM
The six stories in Haruki Murakami’s mesmerizing collection are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when Japan became brutally aware of the fragility of its daily existence. But the upheavals that afflict Murakami’s characters are even deeper and more mysterious, emanating from a p ...Show more
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction
"For the characters in after the quake, 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. Fourteen-ye ...Show more
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction
The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. And then the earthquake struck. Komura's wife follows the TV reports from morning to night, without eating or sleeping. The same images appear again and again: flames, smoke, buildings turned to rubble, their inhabitants dead ...Show more
After the Quake: Unabridged by Haruki Murakami; Rupert Degas (Read by); Teresa Gallagher (Read by); Adam Sims (Read by)
Category: Audio Books
Coming this October: Killing Commendatore, the much-anticipated new novel from Haruki Murakami Set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, the mesmerizing stories in After the Quake are as haunting as dreams and as potent as oracles. An electronics salesman who has been deserted by his wi ...Show more
Alice in Kyoto Forest, Volume 1 by Mai Mai Mochizuki; Haruki Haruki Niwa (Illustrator)
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Alice in Kyoto Forest Ser.
Orphaned at a young age, Alice has lived with her aunt for most of her childhood. But her uncle is abusive and resentful, and at fifteen years old, Alice decides to return home to Kyoto and train as a maiko, eventually hoping to become a geisha. But when she arrives back to the city where she was bo ...Show more
Big Hero 6, Vol. 1 by Disney (Created by); Haruki Ueno (Artist)
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Big Hero 6 Ser.
When Hiro's kindhearted brother, Tadashi, vanishes through a portal to save him, the boy genius is devastated. But his big brother left something to help Hiro cope with his loss--a personal health-care robot named Baymax. And when what Hiro needs more than comfort is an explanation of his brother's disa ...Show more
Big Hero 6 Volume 2 by Ueno Haruki
Category: Children's Graphic Novels | Series: Big Hero 6 Ser.
Hiro teams up with Baymax to resolve the mysterious disappearance of his brother and role model, Tadashi. With four reliable friends and an upgraded Baymax by his side, Hiro finally confronts the masked man, the one who holds the key to the truth Spurred by his desire for revenge, Hiro corners the mask ...Show more
Birthday Girl by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction
She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if things had gone according to plan on that particular Friday, she would have had the night off. One rainy Tokyo night, a waitress's uneventful twentieth birthday takes a strange and fateful turn when she's a ...Show more
Birthday Stories by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction
A collection of eleven birthday stories from some of the most distinguished authors of recent years. Selected and introduced by Haruki Murakami. Our birthday is a day of the year we're sure to remember, a marker in time from which it is easy to asses exactly the course our lives have taken over the ...Show more
Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami by Haruki Murakami
Category: Languages and Reference
What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of an imperfect past? In this enviable gathering, Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the very best short story writers of recent years, each with their own birthday experiences, each story a snaps ...Show more
Blind Willow Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
Category: Audio Books
A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a night watchman is unnerved as his reflection tries to take control of him; a couple's relation ...Show more