The Elephant Vanishes Av Haruki Murakami

<p><b>*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI’S NEW NOVEL, <i>THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS</i>, NOW*<br><br>A dizzying short story collection that displays Murakami''s genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary</b><br><br><b>*Featuring the story ‘Barn Burning’, the inspiration behind the Palme d’Or nominated film <i>Burning</i>*</b><br><br>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.<br><br><b>In every one of these stories Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal.</b></p>