REVIEWS Kafka on the Shore (2005) By LAURA MILLER "Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers." After the Quake: Stories (2002) By JEFF GILES ". . . unexpectedly powerful, a collection of stories, slender and small as a hand, about the emotional aftershocks of the 1995 earthquake in Kobe. . . . One sliver
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