After The Quake

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Copyright © Haruki Murakami 2001
English translation © Haruki Murakami 2002

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The epigraph on page v is from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Demons, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Vintage Books, 1994). The epigraph on page vii is from Classic Film Scripts: Pierrot le Fou, a film by Jean-Luc Godard, translated by Peter Whithead (Lorrimer Publishing Limited, 1969).

These stories first appeared in the following publications in 2001: ‘UFO in Kushiro’, ‘Honey Pie’ (New Yorker), ‘Landscape with Flatiron’ (Persimmon), ‘All God’s Children Can Dance’ (Harper’s), ‘Thailand’ (Granta), ‘Super-Frog Saves Tokyo’ (GQ)

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First published in 2000 with the title Kami no kodomo-tachi wa mina odoru by Shinchosa, Tokyo

First published in Great Britain in 2002 by
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