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Haruki Murakami

The Elephant Vanishes

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With 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 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.

By turns haunting and hilarious, **The Elephant Vanishes** is further proof of Murakami's ability to cross the border between separate realities — and to come back bearing treasure.
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    I’m the one to blame, and I’m also the one to forgive.
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    Simultaneity, if ever there was such a thing: Here I had me thinking, and here I had me observing myself think. Time ticked on in impossibly minute polyrhythms.
  • jellybellyhas quoted3 years ago
    A person can’t exist without morals. I wouldn’t doubt if morals weren’t the very balance to my simultaneity.

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