The Elephant Vanishes

<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>