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When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset; a couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's; a woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden' an insomniac wife wakes up to a twilight world of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible - even death. In every one of these stories Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal. He has a deadpan genius for dislocating realities to uncover the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.
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The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami
- Language
- Released
- 2001
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- The Elephant Vanishes
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Haruki Murakami
- Publisher
- Harvill Panther
- Released
- 2001
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 328
- ISBN10
- 1860468268
- ISBN13
- 9781860468261
- Series
- Tags
- Compilations, Anthologies, Contemporary Fiction, Short Stories, 20th century, Japan, Asia, Japanese Literature, Magical Realism, Asian Fiction, Surrealism, Japanese, 1990s
- Description
- When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset; a couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's; a woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden' an insomniac wife wakes up to a twilight world of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible - even death. In every one of these stories Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal. He has a deadpan genius for dislocating realities to uncover the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.