The Elephant Vanishes

A collection that features such stories as: 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; and, more. *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI’S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*A dizzying short story collection that displays Murakami”s genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary*Featuring the story ‘Barn Burning’, the inspiration behind the Palme d’Or nominated film Burning*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 in 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.

Haruki Murakami

Vintage

8. februar 2001

8. februar 2001

PAPERBACK

336

9780099448754

198 mm

132 mm

22 mm