A dizzying short story collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary *Featuring the story ‘Barn Burning’, the inspiration behind the Palme d’Or nominated film Burning* 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. In every one of these stories Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal.
ISBN: | 9780099448754 |
Publication date: | 8th February 2001 |
Author: | Haruki Murakami |
Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Vintage Publishing |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 336 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |