Including "Landscape with Flatiron," "All God's Children Can Dance," "Thailand," "Honey Pie," "UFO in Kushiro," and "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo," this book takes place in the weeks after a January 1995 event in Kobe.
One incident in this book ends with a character kneeling on a pitcher's mound and proclaiming "Oh God," after following a man on a train whom he believes to be both God and his missing father because the man is missing one earlobe. In another part of this book, a child who believes that she is about to be put into a small box by a malevolent figure is calmed down by hearing a story about two bears in a bullying relationship, who become friends after a trade involving salmon. One character in this book speculates that the protagonist of Jack London's "To Build a Fire" wanted to die and talks about the meaning of bonfires with Miyake. The limousine driver Nimit takes one character in this book to a fortune teller, who instructs Satsuki to dream of a snake in order to get a stone out of her body. A predicted underground battle with a hate-absorbing worm in this book never comes to pass, and Katagiri is covered with insects after confronting the amphibian which foretold such a fight. The first character described in this book is given a free one-week vacation in exchange for a delivering a package to the sister of one of his coworkers at the electronics store, after his wife leaves him a note accusing him of being a "chunk of air" as the reason for leaving him, but traumatic memories of the (*) title phenomenon causes that character to become impotent with Shimao. Including "Landscape with Flatiron," "All God's Children Can Dance," "Thailand," "Honey Pie," "UFO in Kushiro," and "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo," this book takes place in the weeks after a January 1995 event in Kobe. For 10 points, name this short story cycle by Haruki Murakami about a natural disaster.
One incident in this book ends with a character kneeling on a pitcher's mound and proclaiming "Oh God," after following a man on a train whom he believes to be both God and his missing father because the man is missing one earlobe.
After the {Quake} [or {Kami no kodomo tachi wa mina odoru}]