Review: The Elephant Vanishes

The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Give yourself a treat and, after you read each story, do a google search for the story title. Chances are you'll come across someone's essay/analysis/presentation about the story with some new, excellent insight.

Here are some of the ones I came across:
"The Last Lawn of the Afternoon": https://www.davidpublisher.org/Public/uploads/Contribute/5b31baf46ea05.pdf

"The Dancing Dwarf": https://prezi.com/umuiatvdxscy/the-dancing-dwarf-analysis/

"TV People": https://www.soullessmachine.com/2007/06/tv-people-by-haruki-murakami.html and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJgsvpg_g0g

"Family Affair": http://outsiderjapan.pbworks.com/w/page/9758366/Family%20Affair


My favorite stories:
"The Wind-up Bird and Tuesday's Women" (possibly because it reminded me of the book "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle")
"The Second Bakery Attack"
"On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning"
"Barn Burning"
"TV People"
"A Slow boat to china"
"The Last Lawn of the Afternoon"
"The Silence"

As you can see, that is most of them.

Also, what's up with the name Noburo Watanabe??

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