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The Elephant Vanishes
- Author
- Haruki Murakami
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 29 October 2020
- Run Time
- 10 hours 53 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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A dizzying short story collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary
*Featuring the story 'Barn Burning', the inspiration behind the Palme d'Or nominated film Burning*
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 in a twilight world of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible - even death.
In every one of these stories Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal.
© Haruki Murakami 1993 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration
Independent on Sunday
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Enchanting...intriguing... All of these tales have a wonderfully surreal quality and a hip, witty tone
Wall Street Journal
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All the stories take place in parallel worlds not so much remote from ordinary life as hidden within its surfaces: secret alleys that afford unexpected - and unsettling - views
New York Times
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Like the best thriller fiction, it nags you with the sensation that Something Nasty is about to happen
Sunday Times
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Most collections of short stories work by the interplay of different voices. This one offers the more satisfying rewards of a novel: unity of tone and a richness of recurring detail that creates its own texture: spaghetti, lawns, hamburgers, beer-drinking, kid sisters, Sunday afternoons, a man's name
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Details
- Author
- Haruki Murakami
- Narrator
- Nezar Alderazi, Susan Momoko Hingley
- Duration
- 10 hours 53 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 October 2020
- ISBN
- 9781473582606
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Short stories, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.A dizzying short story collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary*Featuring the story 'Barn Burning', the inspiration behind the Palme d'Or nominated film Burning*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 in a twilight world of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible - even death. In every one of these stories Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal.© Haruki Murakami 1993 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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