Fülszöveg
'How does Murakami manage to make poetry while
writing of contemporary life and emotions?
I am weak-kneed with admiration'
Independent on Sunday
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 to a twilight world of semi-consciousness
in which anything seems possible - even death. In every one of the
stories that make up The Elephant Vanishes, Murakami makes a determined
assault on the normal. He has a deadpan genius for dislocating realities
to uncover the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.
'These stories show us Japan as it's experienced from the inside
Even in the slipperiest of Mr Murakami's stories, pinpoints of detail
flash out warm with life'
New York Times
'Enchanting intriguing All of these tales...
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Fülszöveg
'How does Murakami manage to make poetry while
writing of contemporary life and emotions?
I am weak-kneed with admiration'
Independent on Sunday
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 to a twilight world of semi-consciousness
in which anything seems possible - even death. In every one of the
stories that make up The Elephant Vanishes, Murakami makes a determined
assault on the normal. He has a deadpan genius for dislocating realities
to uncover the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.
'These stories show us Japan as it's experienced from the inside
Even in the slipperiest of Mr Murakami's stories, pinpoints of detail
flash out warm with life'
New York Times
'Enchanting intriguing All of these tales have a wonderfully
surreal quality and a hip, witty tone'
Wall Street Journal
'Murakami is a true original and yet in many ways he is also Franz
Kafka's successor because he seems to have the intelligence to know
what Kafka truly was - a comic writer'
Sunday Herald
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