MURAKAMI: The Elephant Vanishes (unabridged)

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The Wind Up Bird and Tuesday’s Women (more info)
Composed by: Haruki Murakami
Rupert Degas, reader


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)
Composed by: Haruki Murakami
Tim Flavin, reader


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)
Composed by: 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)
Composed by: Haruki Murakami
Jeff Peterson, reader


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)
Composed by: Haruki Murakami
Walter Lewis, reader


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)
Composed by: Haruki Murakami
Tim Flavin, reader


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

Sleep (more info)
Composed by: 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)
Composed by: Haruki Murakami
John Chancer, reader


11. Barn Burning - 4:17


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


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)
Composed by: Haruki Murakami
Mark Heenehan, reader


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)
Composed by: Haruki Murakami
John Chancer, reader


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)
Composed by: 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)
Composed by: Haruki Murakami
Jeff Peterson, reader


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)
Composed by: Haruki Murakami
Tim Flavin, reader


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)
Composed by: Haruki Murakami
Jeff Peterson, reader


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)
Composed by: Haruki Murakami
Jeff Peterson, reader


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)
Composed by: Haruki Murakami
Walter Lewis, reader


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)
Composed by: Haruki Murakami
John Chancer, reader


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)
Composed by: Haruki Murakami
Walter Lewis, reader


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)
Composed by: Haruki Murakami
Mark Heenehan, reader


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)
Composed by: Haruki Murakami
John Chancer, reader


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)
Composed by: Haruki Murakami
Tim Flavin, reader


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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