The Elephant Vanishes (41 page)

FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, JULY 1994

Copyright © 1993 by Haruki Murakami

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1993.

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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