After the Quake
All of the stories in this collection are good: Murakami is a pro, and he remains the best there is (though Paul Auster is a contender) at seamlessly blending the mundane and the uncanny. The stories I like the best are the ones that seem—I stress: seem—to owe the most to the simple one-thing-after-another of the world, and I am generally least pleased by the ones most purely fanciful, though I did enjoy the very fanciful "Super Frog Saves Tokyo" quite a bit.
