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. (20021018)
##村上的英译要比中译好读
评分##遇到百分之百的女孩
评分##终于听完了,这个版本的有声书听起来真是超舒服。只可惜村上先生磨磨唧唧的笔法,详细的铺垫很久很久,所有的场景都充满细节的浮现在眼前,感情也是细腻的,可是最后却没有任何故事的结束了。这也算反高潮吗?
评分##每天地铁通勤时不知不觉读完了。pretty bizarre stories
评分##exceptional enthralling
评分##i saw raymond carver!
评分##有读过其中几篇的中译版,重读英译果然感受大不同啊,少了丝氛围感但更清爽有力。喜欢喜欢。
评分##exceptional enthralling
评分##比较喜欢"The Second Bakery Attack","The Fall of the Roman Empire, The 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, And The Realm of Raging Winds","A Family Affair","The Last Lawn of the Afternoon"四篇。