Haruki Murakami: The Elephant Vanishes: Stories

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The Elephant Vanishes: Stories (Vintage International)

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... (read more)

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“A wonderful collection of short stories from one of the masters. It has on story in it called "Sleep" that had an ending that terrified me. The only downpoint here is that a few of the stories drag on ("Sleep" being one of them).”

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gabrielmarquezwhore said:

“I think Murakami is better at short stories that he is with novels. I mean as a writer, he is incomparable but he himself said that a lot of people tell him he is a great short story writer. One can only take so much insanity but his novels seem to drag on sometimes. His short stories however are exquisite. I mean a dancing dwarf, a lovestruck gnome, a couple who holds up a local Mcdonald's. Crazy stuff. I'm reading Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman at the moment and I can't get enough...”

posted Sunday, December 23 2007

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