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The Elephant vanishes / stories by Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Murakami, Haruki, 1949---Translations into English.
- Murakami, Haruki.
- Murakami, Haruki, 1949-.
- Japan--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Japan.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Translations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 327 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage international edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1994.
- Summary:
- Contains seventeen short fiction stories by Haruki Murakami about people whose lives veer off the path of normalcy.
- Contents:
- The wind-up bird and Tuesday's women
- The second bakery attack
- The kangaroo communique
- On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning
- Sleep
- The fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's invasion of Poland, and the realm of raging winds
- Lederhosen
- Barn burning
- The little green monster
- Family affair
- A window
- TV people
- A slow boat to China
- The dancing dwarf
- The last lawn of the afternoon
- The silence
- The elephant vanishes.
- Notes:
- Original title not available.
- ISBN:
- 0679750533
- 9780679750536
- OCLC:
- 29428362
- Online:
- Publisher description
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