num_pages: 327
description: An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.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 to a twilight world of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible—even death. In every one of the stories that make up The Elephant Vanishes, Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal. He has a deadpan genius for dislocating realities to uncover the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.
language: English
title: The Elephant Vanishes
titlecomplete: The Elephant Vanishes
genres: Asia, Audiobook, Short Stories, Japanese Literature, Literature, Fantasy, Japan, Fiction, Contemporary, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 50308
publisher: Vintage