TEHRAN -- Reza Daduii is translating the story collection “The Elephant Vanishes” by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami into Persian.

The book is a collection of seven stories, which were written between 1983 and 1990. Several of the stories originally appeared in magazines before this compilation was published.
Stylistically and thematically, the collection is aligned with Murakami’s previous work. The stories mesh reality with surrealism, and focus on painful issues involving loss, destruction, confusion and loneliness. The title for the book is derived from the final story in the collection.
The book contains 17 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 Silence” and “The Elephant Vanishes”.
Born in 1949, Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer and translator. His fiction and non-fiction works have garnered him critical acclaim, and he is the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel “Kafka on the Shore.” He is considered by critics as an important figure in postmodern literature, and The Guardian praised him as one of the “world’s greatest living novelists.”