After the Quake

“Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead, just used-up shells.”

You know it's Murakami, when the characters stay with you long after you've finished reading the book.
After the Quake is a collection of short stories, about lives of some people and how differently they were all affected by one incident - The Earthquake at Kobe.
My personal favorite was Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, starts all dreamy and vivid, but ends on a very disturbingly horrid note.
Murakami isn't like any author I've read. He has a way of storytelling, which forces you to think about the characters and their lives, even after the story has ended.