The elephant vanishes
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. Now, with The Elephant Vanishes, we have his first collection of short stories. Murakami renders a world in which an aura of 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. And so it is in these seventeen spare, mesmerizing, serenely funny stones. 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
Print Book, English, 1993
1st ed
A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, New York, 1993