Murakami always has this kind of essence to make the stories more immersive rather than a decisive ending. This collection of short stories, “After the Quake”, I guess was the need of the decade for those people of Kobe, and their neighbors to cope up with extremities. Everything about all the six tales scripted by the author has something to deliver, something that either urges for a closure, or hopes for mending something exceptionally fictional to realities.