Elephant Vanishes

Name: Elephant Vanishes
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«Most collections of short stories work by the interplay of different voices. This one offers the more satisfying rewards of a novel: unity of tone and a richness of recurring detail that creates its own texture: spaghetti, lawns, hamburgers, beer-drinking, kid sisters, Sunday afternoons, a man's name»
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*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI’S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*

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.

Detaljer

Forlag: Vintage
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 336
ISBN: 9780099448754
Utgivelsesår: 2001
Format: 20 x 13 cm

Om forfatteren

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.

In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

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«Most collections of short stories work by the interplay of different voices. This one offers the more satisfying rewards of a novel: unity of tone and a richness of recurring detail that creates its own texture: spaghetti, lawns, hamburgers, beer-drinking, kid sisters, Sunday afternoons, a man's name»
Independent

«How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration»
Independent on Sunday

«Enchanting...intriguing... All of these tales have a wonderfully surreal quality and a hip, witty tone»
Wall Street Journal

«All the stories take place in parallel worlds not so much remote from ordinary life as hidden within its surfaces: secret alleys that afford unexpected - and unsettling - views»
New York Times

«Like the best thriller fiction, it nags you with the sensation that Something Nasty is about to happen»
Sunday Times

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bringebæret – 10.06.2005

– Denne boka er en samling av noveller, og selv om jeg egentlig foretrekker romaner, så ble jeg utrolig betatt av denne boka. Det var den første jeg leste av Murakami og det kommer definitivt ikke til å bli den siste. Flere av novellene etterlot meg med en melankolsk følelse, en slags trist stemning men allikevel er de fulle av lys. Murakami skriver skummelt godt, jeg tror nesten jeg kunne lest hva det skulle være av ham bare fordi jeg liker stilen hans og den enkle men allikevel stemningsfulle måten han skildrer tanker, steder og tider på. Ta sjansen på Murakami, hvis du ikke liker det kan du alltids gi bort boka til noen andre!