The Elephant Vanishes: Stories Audiobook (Free)

Using 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 standard. A man sees his preferred elephant vanish into nothing; a newlywed few suffers episodes of craving for food that drive them to carry up a McDonald’s in the middle of the night time; and a young woman discovers that she has become amazing to on the subject of The Elephant Vanishes: Stories just a little green monster who burrows up through her back garden.

By turns haunting and hilarious, The Elephant Vanishes is further proof of Murakami’s ability to cross the border between split realities — and to come back bearing treasure.

Some of the tales within this collection originally appeared in the next publicatons: The Journal (Mobil Corp.): ‘The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler’s Invasion of Poland, and the Realm from the Raging Winds’ (in a previous translation; translated within this volume by Alfred Birnbaum), THE BRAND NEW Yorker: ‘Television People’ and ‘The Wind-up Bird and Tuesday’s Ladies’ (translated by Alfred Birnbaum), ‘The Elephant Vanishes’ and ‘Rest’ (translated by Jay Rubin), and ‘Barn Burning’ (in a previous translation; translated in this quantity by Alfred Birnbaum) Playboy: ‘The Second Bakery Attack’ (translated by Jay Rubin, January 1992).

The elephant vanishes / stories by Haruki Murakami; translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin.-1st Vintage International ed.