The Elephant Vanishes is a collection of 20th and 21st century seventeen urban short stories by Japan's one of the best-selling writer Haruki Murakami. With each of the story premise being absurd and surreal, Murakami gives his trademark humor and wit. The title story is an inconclusive tale of a missing elephant that vanishes from a suburban Tokyo zoo. Another story, The Kangaroo Communique is about kangaroos and the customer service at a department store. Others include a woman torturing a little green monster who crawls out of her garden to propose marriage; three silent, tiny strangers invading a house of a man, installing a TV set and taking over his life; an out-of-work lawyer coping with his angry wife. With Murakami's brief and slightly neurotic style, read these imaginative and semi-surreal short stories.
