résumé
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750536<br /><br />With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels <i>A Wild Sheep Chase</i> and <i>Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World</i>, 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 /><br />By turns haunting and hilarious, <i>The Elephant Vanishes</i> is further proof of Murakami's ability to cross the border between separate realities -- and to come back bearing treasure.
