The Elephant Vanishes
Haruki Murakami
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
3.85
· 46 ratings · 336 pages · Published: 26 Mar 1993
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.
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