The Elephant Vanishes
There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate. All I can do is look up from the train at the windows in the buildings that might be hers. Every one of them could be her window, it sometimes seems to me, and at other times I think that none of them could be hers. There are simply too many of them.
Murakami’s short stories are like Raymond Carver’s, but with more magical realism.
Here are my ratings for each short story in the collection.
Story
Rating
The Wind-up Bird and Tuesday's Women
The Second Bakery Attack
The Kangaroo Communiqué
On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning
Sleep
The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of Raging Winds
Lederhosen
Barn Burning
The Little Green Monster
Family Affair
A Window
TV People
A Slow Boat to China
The Dancing Dwarf
The Last Lawn of the Afternoon
The Silence
The Elephant Vanishes
