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The Elephant Vanishes

By: Haruki Murakami
Narrated by: Nezar Alderazi, Susan Momoko Hingley
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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.

©1993 Haruki Murakami (P)2020 Penguin Audio Absurdist Anthologies & Short Stories Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Short Stories
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