MURAKAMI: The Elephant Vanishes (unabridged) (Jeff Peterson/ John Chancer/ Mark Heenehan/ Rupert Degas/ Teresa Gallagher/ Tim Flavin/ Walter Lewis) (Naxos Audio Books: NA840612)
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A collection of off-the-wall short stories by Japan's leading contemporary novelist. An elephant vanishes; hunger drives a couple to rob McDonalds; an insomniac wife wakes in a different world. Murakami is a cult figure throughout the world with an increasing reputation.
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| The Wind Up Bird and Tuesday’s Women | |
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The Wind Up Bird and Tuesday’s Women |
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I wash up plate and pans while boiling a kettle... |
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‘Easy’ I say ‘now hold on just one minute.’ |
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I go to the kitchen for that drink of water... |
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At twelve-thirty I go out shopping as usual... |
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‘I’m in bed right now,’ the woman says... |
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A little before two o’ clock... |
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The homes that sandwich the passage are of two dis |
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I turn around to look behind me, and there, in the |
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I open the gate and step in, following the girl... |
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The girl gets up from her deckchair and disappears |
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For the time being there isn’t a sound... |
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I awake to find I’m alone |
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The Second Bakery Attack |
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‘I once attacked a bakery. Long time ago.’ |
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Of course, it wasn’t true that nothing had happene |
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| The Second Bakery Attack | |
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The Second Bakery Attack (continued) |
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Altogether there were three McDonald’s workers |
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| The Kangaroo Communiqué | |
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The Kangaroo Communiqué |
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Actually I started to write you a letter... |
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Still and all, this imperfection business... |
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Let us now address the topic of sex |
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Let me say a little more about myself... |
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| On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful Apri | |
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On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful Apri |
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Now, of course, I know exactly what I should have |
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Sleep |
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In any case, what I have now is nothing like that. |
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He drives his Sentra out of the condo parking gara |
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After I’ve had my swim, I use the rest of my after |
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I remember with perfect clarity that first night.. |
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I got out of bed and went into the bathroom |
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I shook my head. Stop thinking, I told myself |
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| Sleep | |
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Sleep (continued) |
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I went back to the sofa and started reading... |
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While I cleared the table, my husband sat on the s |
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At ten o’clock, I got into my bed... |
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And so a week went by |
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One afternoon I went to the library and read... |
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Now my inability to sleep ceased to frighten me... |
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One time I stood and stared at my sleeping husband |
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I left the bedroom and went back to the living roo |
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I’m taking off my pyjamas and putting on jeans... |
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| The Fall of the Roman Empire, The 1881 Indian Upri | |
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The Fall of the Roman Empire, The 1881 Indian Upri |
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2. The 1881 Indian Uprising |
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3. Hitler’s Invasion of Poland |
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4. And the Realm of Raging Winds |
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| Lederhosen | |
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Lederhosen |
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‘They weren’t really shorts,’ she says |
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The shop that sold the lederhosen was in a small t |
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She – the daughter who’s telling me this story... |
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Barn Burning |
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| Barn Burning | |
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Barn Burning (continued) |
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Thereafter I met up with the guy a number of times |
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Midway through the feast, having polished off the |
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‘I’d like to hear about this barn thing,’ I said |
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I nodded. Just how was I to accept this at face va |
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The following day, I went to a bookstore... |
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The next time I met the guy was in the middle of D |
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| The Little Green Monster | |
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The Little Green Monster |
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Of course not, it said to me, cocking its head |
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Family Affair |
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Why had her attitude toward me changed so much... |
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I had started living with my sister five years ear |
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Then she showed me his picture |
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Finally though, I had no choice but to meet... |
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The day after the spaghetti argument with my siste |
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My sister woke me at eight o'clock on Sunday morni |
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| Family Affair | |
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Family Affair (continued) |
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When dinner was over, we moved to the living room |
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It was after midnight by the time I got home |
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| A Window | |
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A Window |
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I kept this part-time job going for a year |
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Hamburger steak. I did actually have the opportuni |
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| TV People | |
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TV People |
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There were three of them altogether. They don’t kn |
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Everything gets removed from the sideboard to make |
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Curiously, the wife makes no mention of the appear |
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I wake at half past two in the morning to find the |
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At work, the day is solid with meetings from the m |
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At one of the afternoon meetings, I see TV people |
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When I get home from work, the apartment is dark.. |
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I dream about a meeting. I’m standing up... |
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The two TV people on the screen keep working away |
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The two TV people in the television continue build |
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| A Slow Boat to China | |
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A Slow Boat to China |
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2. There was an elementary school for Chinese up t |
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It was nearly fifteen minutes later when the proct |
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3. The town where I went to high school was a port |
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Where we worked was a tiny, dark, small-time... |
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When we’d finally danced ourselves out, we left... |
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It was ten after eleven when she finally got off.. |
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4. Now the story of my third Chinese |
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His coffee arrived and he drank it slowly |
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Suddenly there was a click in my head |
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5. Supposing I found myself chasing another fly ba |
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The Dancing Dwarf |
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I woke up alone. Facedown in bed... |
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My partner and I in the ear shop like the second a |
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As soon as the bell rang at quitting time... |
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The old man went on to tell me how the dwarf had a |
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I didn’t dream about the dwarf again |
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| The Dancing Dwarf | |
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The Dancing Dwarf (continued) |
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That night, the dwarf came into my dream again... |
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The dwarf used the branch to draw a number of vert |
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The dance hall stood by the main factory gate... |
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We left the dance hall and walked along the river |
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Now I knew what I had to do |
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| The Last Lawn of the Afternoon | |
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The Last Lawn of the Afternoon |
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At eighteen or nineteen I mowed lawns... |
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The whole week went past before it struck me |
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Clear weather three days in a row, then one day of |
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I pulled the van to a stop in front of the appoint |
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I went to the van, took out the electric mower, gr |
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At twelve-thirty I returned to the lawn |
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The interior of the house was just as deathly quie |
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The woman sat her middle-aged bulk down on the bed |
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I returned to my chair and lit up a brand-new ciga |
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We went back down the same staircase... |
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| The Silence | |
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The Silence |
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After the first few months, Ozawa’s interest in bo |
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‘In almost every way, Aoki and I were polar opposi |
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‘That afternoon, Aoki didn’t show up in class.’ |
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‘Anyway, during summer vacation a terrible thing h |
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’Immediately, I knew Aoki was behind this.’ |
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‘My first hint of a reprieve came a month later.’ |
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At that, Ozawa let out a big sigh |
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| The Elephant Vanishes | |
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The Elephant Vanishes |
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I had had my own private interest in the elephant |
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On its right rear leg, the elephant wore a solid.. |
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And so a year went by |
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The mayor had held a news conference... |
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I met her near the end of September |
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She was unmarried and so was I |
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It was no use: I’d have to tell her the story |
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In fact, I had wondered at the time whether my eye |
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