Murakami, H.: The Elephant Vanishes (Unabridged)

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The Wind Up Bird and Tuesday’s Women (more info)
Haruki Murakami,


1. The Wind Up Bird and Tuesday’s Women - 4:21
2. I wash up plate and pans while boiling a kettle... - 3:58
3. ‘Easy’ I say ‘now hold on just one minute.’ - 3:56
4. I go to the kitchen for that drink of water... - 5:33
5. At twelve-thirty I go out shopping as usual... - 5:33
6. ‘I’m in bed right now,’ the woman says... - 3:16
7. A little before two o’ clock... - 4:27
8. The homes that sandwich the passage are of two distinct... - 5:16
9. I turn around to look behind me, and there, in the yard... - 5:26
10. I open the gate and step in, following the girl... - 5:50
11. The girl gets up from her deckchair and disappears... - 4:12
12. For the time being there isn’t a sound... - 5:50
13. I awake to find I’m alone - 6:31


The Second Bakery Attack (more info)
Tim Flavin, reader
Haruki Murakami,


14. The Second Bakery Attack - 6:27
15. ‘I once attacked a bakery. Long time ago.’ - 4:22
16. Of course, it wasn’t true that nothing had happened... - 4:23

Sleep (more info)
Haruki Murakami,
Teresa Gallagher, reader


1. Sleep - 4:53
2. In any case, what I have now is nothing like that... - 4:35
3. He drives his Sentra out of the condo parking garage... - 4:32
4. After I’ve had my swim, I use the rest of my afternoon... - 3:37
5. I remember with perfect clarity that first night... - 5:42
6. I got out of bed and went into the bathroom - 4:11
7. I shook my head. Stop thinking, I told myself - 3:45


The Kangaroo Communiqué (more info)
Jeff Peterson, reader
Haruki Murakami,


8. The Kangaroo Communiqué - 5:24
9. Actually I started to write you a letter... - 4:45
10. Still and all, this imperfection business... - 6:42
11. Let us now address the topic of sex - 4:14
12. Let me say a little more about myself... - 4:44


On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning (more info)
Walter Lewis, reader
Haruki Murakami,


13. On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning - 5:32
14. Now, of course, I know exactly what I should have said... - 5:42


The Second Bakery Attack (more info)
Tim Flavin, reader
Haruki Murakami,


15. The Second Bakery Attack (continued) - 4:48
16. Altogether there were three McDonald’s workers - 6:18

Sleep (more info)
Haruki Murakami,
Teresa Gallagher, reader


1. Sleep (continued) - 4:06
2. I went back to the sofa and started reading... - 4:22
3. While I cleared the table, my husband sat on the sofa... - 4:38
4. At ten o’clock, I got into my bed... - 4:14
5. And so a week went by - 3:09
6. One afternoon I went to the library and read... - 3:29
7. Now my inability to sleep ceased to frighten me... - 5:36
8. One time I stood and stared at my sleeping husband’s face... - 4:04
9. I left the bedroom and went back to the living room... - 5:30
10. I’m taking off my pyjamas and putting on jeans... - 6:05


Barn Burning (more info)
John Chancer, reader
Haruki Murakami,


11. Barn Burning - 4:17


The Fall of the Roman Empire, The 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler’s Invasion of Poland (...) (more info)
Tim Flavin, reader
Haruki Murakami,


12. The Fall of the Roman Empire, The 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler’s Invasion of Poland, And The Realm of Raging Winds - 3:36
13. 2. The 1881 Indian Uprising - 1:58
14. 3. Hitler’s Invasion of Poland - 1:01
15. 4. And the Realm of Raging Winds - 4:34


Lederhosen (more info)
Mark Heenehan, reader
Haruki Murakami,


16. Lederhosen - 3:52
17. ‘They weren’t really shorts,’ she says - 5:34
18. The shop that sold the lederhosen was in a small town... - 5:52
19. She – the daughter who’s telling me this story... - 3:28

Barn Burning (more info)
John Chancer, reader
Haruki Murakami,


1. Barn Burning (continued) - 4:59
2. Thereafter I met up with the guy a number of times... - 3:59
3. Midway through the feast, having polished off the wine... - 4:08
4. ‘I’d like to hear about this barn thing,’ I said - 4:13
5. I nodded. Just how was I to accept this at face value? - 6:27
6. The following day, I went to a bookstore... - 5:00
7. The next time I met the guy was in the middle of December... - 6:31


The Little Green Monster (more info)
Haruki Murakami,
Teresa Gallagher, reader


8. The Little Green Monster - 5:03
9. Of course not, it said to me, cocking its head - 5:14


Family Affair (more info)
Jeff Peterson, reader
Haruki Murakami,


10. Family Affair - 4:37
11. Why had her attitude toward me changed so much... - 5:20
12. I had started living with my sister five years earlier... - 4:15
13. Then she showed me his picture - 3:35
14. Finally though, I had no choice but to meet... - 4:57
15. The day after the spaghetti argument with my sister... - 4:07
16. My sister woke me at eight o'clock on Sunday morning - 6:59

A Window (more info)
Tim Flavin, reader
Haruki Murakami,


1. A Window - 3:42
2. I kept this part-time job going for a year - 4:09
3. Hamburger steak. I did actually have the opportunity to eat... - 6:47


Family Affair (more info)
Jeff Peterson, reader
Haruki Murakami,


4. Family Affair (continued) - 6:00
5. When dinner was over, we moved to the living room for coffee - 4:38
6. It was after midnight by the time I got home - 6:55


TV People (more info)
Jeff Peterson, reader
Haruki Murakami,


7. TV People - 3:45
8. There were three of them altogether. They don’t knock... - 4:38
9. Everything gets removed from the sideboard to make room... - 5:22
10. Curiously, the wife makes no mention of the appearance... - 4:14
11. I wake at half past two in the morning to find the TV... - 4:08
12. At work, the day is solid with meetings from the morning on - 3:46
13. At one of the afternoon meetings, I see TV people again - 3:06
14. When I get home from work, the apartment is dark... - 4:24
15. I dream about a meeting. I’m standing up... - 5:00
16. The two TV people on the screen keep working away - 4:09
17. The two TV people in the television continue building... - 3:57

The Dancing Dwarf (more info)
Walter Lewis, reader
Haruki Murakami,


1. The Dancing Dwarf - 6:52
2. I woke up alone. Facedown in bed... - 4:44
3. My partner and I in the ear shop like the second approach - 3:20
4. As soon as the bell rang at quitting time... - 5:00
5. The old man went on to tell me how the dwarf had arrived... - 5:23
6. I didn’t dream about the dwarf again - 3:28


A Slow Boat to China (more info)
John Chancer, reader
Haruki Murakami,


7. A Slow Boat to China - 5:26
8. 2. There was an elementary school for Chinese up the hill... - 3:55
9. It was nearly fifteen minutes later when the procter... - 5:45
10. 3. The town where I went to high school was a port town... - 4:18
11. Where we worked was a tiny, dark, small-time... - 3:27
12. When we’d finally danced ourselves out, we left... - 3:47
13. It was ten after eleven when she finally got off... - 5:10
14. 4. Now the story of my third Chinese - 5:02
15. His coffee arrived and he drank it slowly - 4:02
16. Suddenly there was a click in my head - 3:48
17. 5. Supposing I found myself chasing another fly ball... - 4:54

The Dancing Dwarf (more info)
Walter Lewis, reader
Haruki Murakami,


1. The Dancing Dwarf (continued) - 2:48
2. That night, the dwarf came into my dream again... - 4:46
3. The dwarf used the branch to draw a number of vertical lines... - 4:12
4. The dance hall stood by the main factory gate... - 6:44
5. We left the dance hall and walked along the river - 4:17
6. Now I knew what I had to do - 3:42


The Last Lawn of the Afternoon (more info)
Mark Heenehan, reader
Haruki Murakami,


7. The Last Lawn of the Afternoon - 4:14
8. At eighteen or nineteen I mowed lawns... - 5:21
9. The whole week went past before it struck me - 4:51
10. Clear weather three days in a row, then one day of rain... - 4:07
11. I pulled the van to a stop in front of the appointed house... - 3:58
12. I went to the van, took out the electric mower, grass clippers... - 4:40
13. At twelve-thirty I returned to the lawn - 5:43
14. The interior of the house was just as deathly quiet as before - 4:18
15. The woman sat her middle-aged bulk down on the bed... - 4:01
16. I returned to my chair and lit up a brand-new cigarette - 4:27
17. We went back down the same staircase... - 4:35

The Silence (more info)
John Chancer, reader
Haruki Murakami,


1. The Silence - 4:35
2. After the first few months, Ozawa’s interest in boxing... - 4:15
3. ‘In almost every way, Aoki and I were polar opposites.’ - 5:25
4. ‘That afternoon, Aoki didn’t show up in class.’ - 4:40
5. ‘Anyway, during summer vacation a terrible thing happened.’ - 4:23
6. ’Immediately, I knew Aoki was behind this.’ - 5:50
7. ‘My first hint of a reprieve came a month later.’ - 3:43
8. At that, Ozawa let out a big sigh - 4:55


The Elephant Vanishes (more info)
Tim Flavin, reader
Haruki Murakami,


9. The Elephant Vanishes - 4:33
10. I had had my own private interest in the elephant problem... - 4:12
11. On its right rear leg, the elephant wore a solid... - 3:07
12. And so a year went by - 4:28
13. The mayor had held a news conference... - 5:47
14. I met her near the end of September - 4:21
15. She was unmarried and so was I - 4:25
16. It was no use: I’d have to tell her the story - 5:19
17. In fact, I had wondered at the time whether my eyes... - 5:22

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