That night, Frog visits to tell Katagiri that they were successful in the battle against Worm but the battle was fought to a draw.

An unreliable narrator is not quite the right label because he believes what he experiences is real, but we are left questioning his reality. Five years later, Haruki Murakami, already a major figure in world literature, would attempt to come to grips with a year of surreal violence.We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed.

Junko, a runaway, and Keisuke, surfer and rock music enthusiast, share a place in a small seaside town in the Ibaraki Prefecture. In the penultimate story, “super-frog saves tokyo,” a six-foot tall frog enlists help from a collection agent named Katagiri. That night, while Sayoko and Sala sleep together in the same bed, Junpei watches over them and decides that he will ask Sayoko to marry him when she wakes up.They then proceed to have intercourse on the living room couch and Junpei continually holds back on ejaculation, not wanting the moment to end. Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" was a real misunderstanding for me and it really was the foggiest story from all the six. After a slight confusion regarding Keiko thinking that his wife has died rather than left him, they go to a noodle house for a meal. I felt happy in the way that you do when you hear a song for the first time and realize, Hey, this is really good, but I also felt sad. The two then talk about Miyake's family and a recent painting Miyake finished, Landscape with Flatiron, and its cryptic meaning.

Murakami deceives with what initially appears to be a simple story, and then we venture with Yoshiya deeper into the underbelly of his life until he finds his "God. Toti copiii Domnului danseaza" infatiseaza povestea lui Yoshiya, un tanar despre care se crede ca ar fi Fiul Lui Dumnezeu. At the beach they talk about a number of things, including the recent quake, Miyake's Kansai dialect, and why Miyake likes lighting bonfires on the beach. Junko also thinks about Jack London's " To Build a Fire" and her contrarian interpretation of how the man fundamentally longs for death.All of the stories are set in February 1995, the month between the Kobe earthquake and the Tokyo gas attacks.