It is a continually surprisingĪltogether remarkable collection of storiesĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:46:35 Boxid IA138114 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Comment Removing Scanfee from Billable Books scanned before June 2011 which appear to have manually set scanfees Donor The Elephant Vanishes invites us to see what might otherwise remain hidden: the sure existence of the inexplicable - both chaotic and comic - in the demure dailiness of life.
a young man invited into the carefully preserved room of a stranger's absent daughter begins to sense the armature of fiction beneath the malleable surface of recollection. Illusory but nonetheless have a surer sense of what's really going on than he does. a man's life is invaded by TV People who may be sleeplessness becomes a foretaste of death for a young mother.
a store clerk's reply to a letter of complaint reveals the vast clutter of his own thoughts, at the center of which hangs his theory of "The Nobility of Imperfection". the protagonist of another story knows that she has taken part in an impossible reality when she telepathically slays a small green monster who has just proposed marriage to her. 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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