Slawomir Mrozek: The Elephant (Penguin Modern Classics) [2010] paperback Condition:New 'If you've never read it

'If you've never read it

Kadou takes responsibility for the investigation of a break-in at one of their guilds

Between the paroxysms of two world wars

the vast empty grasslands of South America where the wind blows without end

and Komi doesn't know how to deal with her sudden flood of jealousy

Slawomir Mrozek: The Elephant (Penguin Modern Classics) [2010] paperback Condition:New 'If you've never read itThe Elephant (1957) is Slawomir Mrozek's award winning collection of hilarious and unnerving short stories, satirising life in Poland under a totalitarian regime. The family of a wealthy lawyer keep a 'tamed progressive' as a pet; a zoo saves money for the workers by fashioning their elephant from rubber; a swan is dismissed from the municipal park for public drunkenness; and under the Writers' Association, literary critics are banished to the salt