Haruki Murakami After the quake

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-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.