Couple of days ago I read a short story By Haruki Murakami called "Super-Frog saves Tokyo". I am not a Murakami fan but I have read "Kafka on the shore" and one more short story called "The Airplane". And all these should be called, for lack of a good vocabulary, interesting. I like Franz Kafka and Murakami is very similar. He takes a seemingly impossible, foolish, fantastic, surreal incident and puts it in realist surroundings.
In the short story, a bank officer meets a giant six-foot frog, called "Frog". Now Frog wants his help to fight a worm called Worm and stop an impending earthquake which would destroy Tokyo. Sounds interesting? Foolish?
The story works on many levels and I dont know if its meant to be. It's confusing. You think you have not got it but somehow you have. If you think I am crazy to talk like that, well, go read it and then we'll talk.
Whatever it is.. I think I liked it :)
Yours Sincerely,
