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Rumpus Book ClubMarch 21st, 2011
Lydia Heberling: The Last Book I Loved, After the Quake
I feel like now is an inappropriate time to admit that the last book I loved is a book called After the Quake by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, a book more or less about Japan’s last devastating earthquake in Kobe.
I wrote most of this a week ago, the day before the last quake, and having spent all of last Thursday intensely focused on writing about a book about an earthquake–especially an earthquake in Japan–I feel kind of personally responsible for this quake, as if I’d made it happen. Which would be crazy, except I have a history of weird earthquake premonition: the last two earthquakes – the Chile and Haiti quakes – I dreamt about earthquakes the night before both. I’m just saying. …more
