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The Elephant Vanishes: Stories
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 895.635
EAN: 9780679750536
ISBN: 0679750533
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: June 28, 1994
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: June 28, 1994
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. 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, The Elephant Vanishes is further proof of Murakami's ability to cross the border between separate realities -- and to come back bearing treasure.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A wonderful introduction
Murakami is a writer that you either love or hate. For me, reading his work is encountering an almost perfect story. He engages the reader in a new world, full of magic realism, humor and a strange unsettling darkness. The short stories in this collection stay with you years after initial reading. If you don't enjoy The Elephant Vanishes, chances are you will not appreciate his novels. This is a wonderful introduction to the addictive world of this great author.
Rating: - Surreal landscapes
Murakami's writing has a surreal quality. This collection of stories was like wandering through a series of seductive dream landscapes. Originally styled.
- C.A.Wulff, author of Born Without a Tail
Rating:  - Great stories!
This is a collection of really great stories by one of my very favorite authors, Haruki Murakami. His writing is subtle and mysterious; calming and exciting at the same time!
Rating: - Murakami's stories are simply extraordinary.
Reading Murakami is just plain fun. The characters in Murakami`s stories live ordinary lives which somehow become twisted and extraordinary. In the short story anthology The Elephant Vanishes, a man`s favorite elephant disappears into thin air and the balance of his whole life is upset. In Sleep, a woman is startled by a strange man in her sleep and suffers a subsequent case of wakefulness with moments of animated consciousness and unimaginable horror. Seemingly mundane conversations between characters ... Read More
Rating: - Seventeen original stories
There are 17 charming, funny and frequently puzzling short stories in "The Elephant Vanishes". Nearly all bear the author's particular style: a mixture of magical realism, feckless wandering and clean writing, often ending at a blank wall.
The 17 stories, very well translated by Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin, show the author's wide range of reading and interests. The stories are set in Japan but they include references to Allen Ginsberg, Clarence Darrow, Candice Bergen, the "Colonel Bogey" March, ... Read More
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