The Elephant Vanishes

A collection of stories by the most famous master of contemporary Japanese literature. Here, a dignified elephant and its old keeper mysteriously vanish from the city zoo; the terrible hunger of the night can be satisfied only by attacking a bakery again. And the beautiful twin sisters known from a previous life appear in advertisements for a new disco bar—and disappear into the fairy-tale, solidifying space of sleep. Also, there is an astonishingly beautiful, unusual, mysterious garden—half from a fairy tale, half from the past, or maybe from a world that never existed anywhere. In it, a strange little girl speaks about life—and unusually about death…