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The Elephant Vanishes
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Jun 28th, 1994
- Pages: 336
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.20in - 0.80in - 0.55lb
- EAN: 9780679750536
- Categories: • Short Stories (single author)• Fantasy - Contemporary• Magical Realism
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What people are saying
Of books, literature, music, solitude and memes. | Uzair, wa caya lu! – Mohd Jayzuan
I don't really read love stories but when it comes to this one, imma make an exception Book – The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami https://t.co/prWfS2kZzF
I work as an immigration lawyer. I’m an English learner and curious about foreigners’life in Japan.Feel free to follow me.
I got to download the audio book of Haruki Murakami’s novel”The elephant vanishes”for free. I listened to the first part of the novel but it was hard to understand all of them without a script. So I bought the English version of the book on Amazon.#Twinglish #英語ĺ¦çż’
Memory works in different ways for everybody. Different capacities, different directions, too. Sometimes memory helps you think, sometimes it impedes. Doesn’t mean it’s good or bad. Probably means it’s no big deal.,Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes,memory,
Praise for this book
"Eerie, unsettling. . . . [A] wonderful combination of the bizarre and the mundane." -Village Voice Literary Supplement
"Charming, humorous and frequently puzzling . . . The Elephant Vanishes [is] fun to read." -The New York Times
"These stories show us Japan as it's experienced from the inside. . . . [They] take place in parallel worlds not so much remote from ordinary life as hidden within its surfaces. . . . Even in the slipperiest of Mr. Murakami's stories, pinpoints of detail flash out . . . warm with life, hopelessly-and wonderfully-unstable." -The New York Times Book Review
"A stunning writer at work in an era of international literature." -Newsday
"Enchanting...intriguing...all of these tales have a wonderfully surreal quality and a hip, witty tone. Mr. Murakami has pulled off a tricky feat, writing stories about people who are bored but never boring. He left me lying awake at night, hungry for more." -Wall Street Journal
"The Elephant Vanishes, through [its] bold originality and charming surrealism, should win the author new readers in this country." -Detroit Free Press
What people are saying
Of books, literature, music, solitude and memes. | Uzair, wa caya lu! – Mohd Jayzuan
I don't really read love stories but when it comes to this one, imma make an exception Book – The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami https://t.co/prWfS2kZzF
I work as an immigration lawyer. I’m an English learner and curious about foreigners’life in Japan.Feel free to follow me.
I got to download the audio book of Haruki Murakami’s novel”The elephant vanishes”for free. I listened to the first part of the novel but it was hard to understand all of them without a script. So I bought the English version of the book on Amazon.#Twinglish #英語ĺ¦çż’