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The elephant vanishes

Translated by Alfred Birnbaum, Jay Rubin

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notes: Short stories, including: The wind-up bird and Tuesday’s women, The second bakery attack, The kangaroo communique, On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning, Sleep, The fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler’s invasion of Poland, and the realm of raging winds, Lederhosen, Barn burning, The little green monster, Family affair, A window, TV people, A slow boat to China, The dancing dwarf, The last lawn of the afternoon, The silence, The elephant vanishes
subjects: Humorous stories
Social life and customs
genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780679420576
OCLC number: 26805691
publisher: A.A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House, 1993; Vintage, 1993, 1994, 2010
publication place: New York; New York
english publication date: 1993
document type: Book
description: 327 p. ; 22 cm.