The Elephant Vanishes (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Haruki Murakami
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Short Stories
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Memory, Fantasy, Loneliness, Work or workers, Japan or Japanese people, Comedy, Monsters, Urbanization
- Locales: Tokyo, Japan
Haruki Murakami is acclaimed as the “voice of a generation” in Japan. His first two novels to appear in English, A Wild Sheep Chase (1989) and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1991), won high praise from American critics. The Elephant Vanishes, his first collection of short stories, again demonstrates that Murakami’s is, indeed, one of the most exciting voices in international literature.
In The Elephant Vanishes, Murakami intermingles reality with fantasy, memory with illusion, and the physical world with metaphysical...
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