Some of the stories in this collection originally appeared in the following publicatons: The Magazine (Mobil Corp.): “The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler’s Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of the Raging Winds” (in a previous translation; translated in this volume by Alfred Birnbaum), The New Yorker: “TV People” and “The Wind-up Bird and Tuesday’s Women” (translated by Alfred Birnbaum), “The Elephant Vanishes” and “Sleep” (translated by Jay Rubin), and “Barn Burning” (in a previous translation; translated in this volume by Alfred Birnbaum) Playboy: “The Second Bakery Attack” (translated by Jay Rubin, January 1992).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
     The elephant vanishes / stories by Haruki Murakami; translated
     from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin.—1st Vintage
     International ed.
          p. cm.
     eISBN: 978-0-307-76273-3
  I. Title.
  PL856.U673E44   1993   93-43493
  895.6’35—dc20

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