# The Elephant Vanishes

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- Book: [The Elephant Vanishes](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami/the-elephant-vanishes) ([The Elephant Vanishes.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami/the-elephant-vanishes.md))
- Authors: [Haruki Murakami](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9944-875-4
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2012-10-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.