The Elephant Vanishes Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (1999) and forever

and forever

it is a bewitching and wildly inventive novel from a master stylist

with society on the side of May and all she stands for

The Inheritance of Loss is a glorious second novel from the author of the universally praised Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

Only averagely tall

The Elephant Vanishes Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (1999) and foreverAn alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. 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 in a twilight world of semi consciousness in which anything seems possible even death. In every one of these