In these 17 haunting, hilarious stories Murakami once again makes a determined assault on the normal. A man's favourite elephant simply vanishes; a couple suffering midnight hunger pangs hold up a McDonalds; a woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden. No other writer has such a deadpan genius for dislocating realities to find the surreal in the everyday, the ordinary in the extraordinary.
