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Original Title:	象の消滅 短篇選集 1980-1991
Edition Language:	English

The Elephant Vanishes

Haruki Murakami

Paperback | Pages: 327 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 37357 Users | 2378 Reviews

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Title	:	The Elephant Vanishes
Author	:	Haruki Murakami
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 327 pages
Published	:	June 28th 1994 by Vintage (first published March 30th 1993)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Magical Realism

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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.

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This is my third Haruki Murakami read and by far my least favorite. After Norwegian Wood and After Dark, I felt this author could do no wrong. Those two novels were vastly different from each other - one a simplistic-yet-moving coming-of-age story and the other a mindtrip into the streets and characters of nocturnal Japan - and I was hoping some of that mastery of story would show up in each one of these tales. I was sorely mistaken. My rating is based solely on the fact that I only liked 7 out

Haruki Murakami has always his own kinda flavor !Short stories, melancholic stories, mostly weird stories . I feel so submerged into his characters that sometimes its hard to remember that I'm not them. I don't listen to jazz in the morning with a can of bear, waking up next my partner & feel so lifeless ! But you know, then I'm here in the reality. Which is even weirder but in a less interesting way :(

This is my new favourite book of all time. There, I said it. This short story collection is such a mind fuck and I am so glad that we discussed this at university because it broadened my horizon so much and nothing is the same ... and life is beautiful and I am pretty overwhelmed. I read The Elephant Vanishes in 2016 and didn't think much of it ... it was a good short story collection but I didn't properly engage with it. I read it within the span of two days and that was it. Oh, my sweet summer

This collection of 17 short stories are all geniusly written. They captivated me instantly from the TV guys who consistently make a haunting appearance in TV People to the housewife who no longer needs shut eye in Sleep, with The Elephant Vanishes concluding the chain of whimsical happenings ever-so vividly illustrated. Ive always felt a bit daunted going into short stories because reading them requires a certain type of reader. One who is able to remain completely absorbed by the story, taking

Not only was the book amazing (I truly believe he can do no wrong), but one of my best friends and I saw an actual play of it several years ago at Lincoln Center. We had seats in the very front row. The play (as required, I'm sure) was balls-out crazy, all in Japanese, with a ticker doing subtitles at the the top of the stage. My memory sucks, but I think I recall a bunch of people with static-spewing TVs for heads, and some crazy shit with sideways sleeping people. Probably I should reread the

A well-told eerie short story by Murakami. I'm impressed with how he has succeeded in making the reader speculate on the mysterious elements of the story, making good use of the idiom "the devil is in the details".(view spoiler)[Arguing against the "serial killer theory"The main theory that circulates on this story is that the mysterious boyfriend of the woman is in fact a serial killer - who I will henceworth refer to as the businessman as he is never called by name. I think the theory of the

I've been deeply disappointed in Murakami before, and I seem to remember that they're always short stories that I have found useless. But this collection floats my boat. I agree with some reviews I've read that complain of the lack of variety in the protagonists' situations -- they're, almost to a one, loners, bored, alienated, and around 30. Most of them are experiencing some kind of freakish alteration in the world around them which, I take, we are meant to interpret as changes in themselves.