本書為村上春樹與安西水丸八○年代合作的短篇系列,村上的小品創作配合安西的清新畫風,打破文字與圖象的區隔及界限,亦表現出創作人的獨特性格及生活見聞。
★本書中譯版《象工場的HAPPY END》由時報出版。
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.