The Elephant Vanishes
1993 short story collection by Haruki Murakami / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Elephant Vanishes (象の消滅, Zō no shōmetsu) is a collection of 17 short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The stories were written between 1980 and 1991,[1] and published in Japan in various magazines, then collections. The contents of this compilation were selected by Gary Fisketjon (Murakami's editor at Knopf) and first published in an English translation in 1993 (its Japanese counterpart was released later in 2005). Several of the stories had already appeared (often with alternate translations) in the magazines The New Yorker, Playboy, and The Magazine (Mobil Corp.) before this compilation was published.
Editor | Gary Fisketjon |
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Author | Haruki Murakami |
Original title | 象の消滅 Zō no shōmetsu |
Translator | Alfred Birnbaum, Jay Rubin |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Genre | Short story collection |
Published | March 31, 1993 (Knopf) |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 327 |
ISBN | 0-679-42057-6 |
OCLC | 26805691 |
LC Class | PL856.U673 E44 1993 |
Stylistically and thematically, the collection aligns with Murakami's previous work. The stories mesh normality with surrealism, and focus on painful issues involving loss, destruction, confusion and loneliness. The title for the book is derived from the final story in the collection.