The Elephant Vanishes
Stories
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
In the tales that make up The Elephant Vanishes, the imaginative genius that has made Haruki Murakami an international superstar is on full display.
In these stories, a man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald’s in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard. By turns haunting and hilarious, in The Elephant Vanishes Murakami crosses the border between separate realities—and comes back bearing remarkable treasures.
Includes the story "Barn Burning," which is the basis for the major motion picture Burning.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In his first short story collection, Japanese superstar novelist Haruki Murakami shows a more playful side of his strange, captivating vision. Though Murakami explores the same weighty themes as he does in his longer fiction—love, alienation, death—his trademark surrealism is more obviously humorous. From a famished couple demanding fast-food hamburgers at gunpoint to a woman traveling alone to Germany to buy lederhosen for her husband, the matter-of-fact oddness of these 17 stories suggests a world more wondrous than our own—one we loved lingering in.
