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. |
The elephant vanishes
Translated by Alfred Birnbaum, Jay Rubin