{"product_id":"book-b7hb","title":"The Elephant Vanishes","description":"With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels \u003cb\u003eA Wild Sheep Chase\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turns haunting and hilarious, \u003cb\u003eThe Elephant Vanishes\u003c\/b\u003e is further proof of Murakami's ability to cross the border between separate realities -- and to come back bearing treasure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome of the stories in this collection originally appeared in the following publicatons: \u003ci\u003eThe Magazine (Mobil Corp.): \u003c\/i\u003e\"The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of the Raging Winds\" (in a previous translation; translated in this volume by Alfred Birnbaum), \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker: \u003c\/i\u003e\"TV People\" and \"The Wind-up Bird and Tuesday's Women\" (translated by Alfred Birnbaum), \"The Elephant Vanishes\" and \"Sleep\" (translated by Jay Rubin), and \"Barn Burning\" (in a previous translation; translated in this volume by Alfred Birnbaum) \u003ci\u003ePlayboy: \u003c\/i\u003e\"The Second Bakery Attack\" (translated by Jay Rubin, January 1992).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe elephant vanishes \/ stories by Haruki Murakami; translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin.—1st Vintage International ed.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49336124047664,"sku":"BDb7hb","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/145295-b7hb-Square.jpg?v=1733945041","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-b7hb","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}