The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami antiquarian Decades later

Decades later

Albom and the two men of God explore issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happen

but identify and denounce the corrupt politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of abuse and violence

a charmer and a bully

and the cult that took over in the 1970s

The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami antiquarian Decades laterIn the tales that make up The Elephant Vanishes, the imaginative genius that has made Haruki Murakami an international superstar is on full display. In these stories, a man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonalds in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her