After the Quake

[MalignD at aol.com]

Re writerly intentions and readerly inferences:

An earlier review of Haruki Murakami's book, After the Quake, was briefly 
recapped today (tomorrow) in the NY Times Book Review, New & Noteworthy 
Paperbacks.   It said:

"Even though they were written before Sept. 11, 2001, these six stories about 
the emotional aftershocks of the lethal 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan, will 
resonate with many American readers as a metaphor for the terrorist atacks. 
...   Last year our reviewer, Jeff Giles, found this an 'unexpectedly 
powerful' collection about a traumatizing shock to the Japanese system.   In 
fact, he added, 'one sliver of what makes the book so moving is the sense 
that on some level it is Murakami's deeply felt get-well card' to the United 
States."

Which, of course, it was not, at least when written.
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