. . "The Elephant Vanishes"@en . . "PL856.U673 E44 1993" . "0-679-42057-6" . . "327"^^ . . "Z\u014D no sh\u014Dmetsu"@en . "The Elephant Vanishes (\u8C61\u306E\u6D88\u6EC5, Z\u014D no sh\u014Dmetsu) is a collection of 17 short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The stories were written between 1980 and 1991, and published in Japan in various magazines, then collections. The contents of this compilation were selected by Gary Fisketjon (Murakami's editor at Knopf) and first published in English translation in 1993 (its Japanese counterpart was released later in 2005)."@en . . "26805691" . .