具體描述
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)
用戶評價
##exceptional enthralling
##奇鳥貫串瞭N多短篇
##兩位譯者的風格真是截然不同，Alfred用詞比較艱澀，Jay平實通俗。有點兒像中譯本你死我活級彆的林賴之分。讀英文版的最大收獲是會看得比較仔細，幾乎要一字一句的讀，不像看中文有些細節容易滑過去。至於小說本身，喜歡的篇目還是那幾篇，不喜歡的也一樣，沒有因為語言的不同而有什麼改變。
##有讀過其中幾篇的中譯版，重讀英譯果然感受大不同啊，少瞭絲氛圍感但更清爽有力。喜歡喜歡。
正在看，和中文版的感覺很不一樣，因為村上本身就受西方短篇小說傢影響較大，以後還是看英譯本。
##When I wish to comment on this I promptly forget my words.
##exceptional enthralling
##exceptional enthralling
##讀村上的書讓我隻有驚嘆