The Elephant Vanishes
Author: Haruki Murakami
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….Read More
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