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 every one of the stories that make up The Elephant Vanishes, Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal. He has a deadpan genius for dislocating realities to uncover the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.

It is strange, this book should be a book I would not like. The stories are quite random, the plot doesn't go far, the characters are nothing special. Yet, I still kept on reading and enjoying it. Some stories are better than others. I liked Silence, The dancing dwarf anf Sleepless the most.

Released in the bookshelf. Happy travels book!