The narrator of the title story - obsessed with the unaccountable disappearance of an elephant from the local elephant house - thinks he may have glimpsed what only seems impossible And so it is in these seventeen spare, mesmerizing, serenely funny stones. Surrealism pervades everyday life: cause and effect change place, memory and illusion change the shape of the present moment, the most ordinary thoughts and actions result in the most unexpected revelations and events. Murakami renders a world in which an aura of Now, with The Elephant Vanishes, we have his first collection of short stories. When his novel A Wild Sheep Chase was published in 1989, Haruki Murakami was hailed in The New York Times as "a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wise man." With Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - his second novel to appear in English - his reputation as one of Japan's boldest writers at work today was firmly secured. The wind-up bird and Tuesday's women - The second bakery attack - The kangaroo communique - On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning - Sleep - The fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's invasion of Poland, and the realm of raging winds - Lederhosen - Barn burning - The little green monster - Family affair - A window - TV people - A slow boat to China - The dancing dwarf - The last lawn of the afternoon - The silence - The elephant vanishes
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