From Publishers WeeklyThe virtuoso Japanese novelist presents 17 playful and darkly comic existentialist conundrums. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalThis collection of 15 stories from a popular Japanese writer, perhaps best known in this country for A Wild Sheep Chase ( LJ 11/15/89), gives a nice idea of his breadth of style. The work maintains the matter-of-fact tone reminiscent of American detective fiction, balancing itself somewhere between the spare realism of Raymond Carver and the surrealism of Kobo Abe. These are not the sort of stories that one thinks of as "Japanese"; the intentionally Westernized style and well-placed reference to pop culture gives them a contemporary and universal feel. Engaging, thought-provoking, humorous, and slyly profound, these skillful stories will easily appeal to American readers but must present something of a challenge to the Japanese cultural establishment. At their best, however, they serve to dispel cultural stereotypes and reveal a common humanity. Recommended for libraries with an interest in contemporary fiction.- Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll. Lib., N.Y.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

象の消滅

Murakami, Haruki

村上春樹

A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House

Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

Random House, Incorporated

Random House AudioBooks

1st Vintage international ed., New York, New York State, April 1, 1998

First Vintage international edition, New York, 1994

United States, United States of America

1st ed, New York, 1993

New York, N.Y, ©1993

1, 1994

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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

<p><p>with The Same Deadpan Mania And Genius For Dislocation That He Brought To His Internationally Acclaimed Novels <b>a Wild Sheep Chase</b> And <b>hard-boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World</b>, 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.<p>by Turns Haunting And Hilarious, <b>the Elephant Vanishes</b> Is Further Proof Of Murakami's Ability To Cross The Border Between Separate Realities &#151; And To Come Back Bearing Treasure.</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>the Virtuoso Japanese Novelist Presents 17 Playful And Darkly Comic Existentialist Conundrums. (july)</p>

In the tales that make up The Elephant Vanishes, the imaginative genius that has made Haruki Murakami an international superstar is on full display.In these stories, 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. By turns haunting and hilarious, in The Elephant Vanishes Murakami crosses the border between separate realities—and comes back bearing remarkable treasures.Includes the story'Barn Burning,'which is the basis for the major motion picture Burning.

Fifteen tales encompass the story of a man obsessed with the disappearance of an elephant from a local zoo and that of a young mother whose sleeplessness provides her with a foretaste of death

Contains seventeen short fiction stories by Haruki Murakami about people whose lives veer off the path of normalcy

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