• ISBN13: 9780679750536
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Vintage
• Publisher Imprint: Vintage
• Publication Date: June 28, 1994
• Pages: 336
• Original Price: USD 17.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 249 grams

<p><b>From the Inside Flap</b><br>With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald's in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard. <BR>By turns haunting and hilarious, The Elephant Vanishes is further proof of Murakami's ability to cross the border between separate realities -- and to come back bearing treasure.</p><p><b>From the Back Cover</b><br>A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald's in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard.</p>