The islandman / Tomás Ó Crohan ; translated from the Irish by Robin Flower ideas in The Elephant Vanishes Murakami

in The Elephant Vanishes Murakami crosses the border between separate realities—and comes back bearing remarkable treasures

and when a cheaper version will work just as well

but the chapters in this book are arranged by cooking equipment

which was shortlisted for the 1995 Booker Prize

The islandman / Tomás Ó Crohan ; translated from the Irish by Robin Flower ideas in The Elephant Vanishes MurakamiTomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet possessed a shrewd and humorous detachment that enabled him to observe and describe the world. His book is a valuable description of a now vanished way of life; his sole purpose in writing it was in his own words, 'to set down the character of the people about me