Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1 : Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Where I'm Likely to Find It, Birthday Girl, The Seventh Man
Murakami Haruki
Tuttle Publishing
With their trademark mix of realism and fantasy, centering around Murakami's characteristic themes of loss, remorse and confusion, the four stories in this volume are :
Super-Frog Saves Tokyo : A few days after an earthquake, Katagiri discovers a giant frog in this home. The frog promises to save Tokyo from another earthquake, but Katagiri must help him. Is this real, or is Katagiri dreaming ?
Where I'm Likely to Find It : A woman's husband goes missing so she hires detective. As the detective traces the man's whereabouts, he reflects on the meaning of his own life.
Birthday Girl : A woman tells her friend the story of a surreal encounter she has on her twentieth birthday with the owner of the restaurant where she works, who grants her a wish.
The Seventh Man : The story of a man scarred by the death of his childhood friend in a tsunami.
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories is one of three short story compilations, which present a total of 9 short stories from Murakami's bestselling collections.