具体描述
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. (20021018)
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##白开水
##每天地铁通勤时不知不觉读完了。pretty bizarre stories
##每天地铁通勤时不知不觉读完了。pretty bizarre stories
##奇鸟贯串了N多短篇
##When I wish to comment on this I promptly forget my words.
##还是很有意思的，闭上眼听书，脑中剧场比电影精彩百倍，真人动漫画风格随意切换，远景近景特写各种调度都随心所欲，太过瘾了。进入村上春树的奇幻世界，这种被empowered的感觉尤为强烈。
正在看，和中文版的感觉很不一样，因为村上本身就受西方短篇小说家影响较大，以后还是看英译本。
##今晚把象的失蹤這一篇看了，還是感慨中英譯本讀起來的體驗相當懸殊。看到某篇評論說，消失之後該注重的問題不是why是where，我倒是覺得where也不重要，but what’s next?
##比较喜欢"The Second Bakery Attack"，"The Fall of the Roman Empire, The 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, And The Realm of Raging Winds"，"A Family Affair"，"The Last Lawn of the Afternoon"四篇。