Na De Aardbeving by Haruki Murakami

A linked collection of seven short stories set in the wake of a major earthquake, following ordinary people whose lives are quietly upended as they contend with loss, fear and emotional dislocation; blending subtle realism with dreamlike, surreal intrusions, the stories probe themes of isolation, fate and the search for human connection as trauma’s aftershocks ripple through memory, relationships and the boundary between waking life and the unconscious.