{"product_id":"9780141193045-retail-the-elephant","title":"The Elephant","description":"'At that moment the elephant shuddered and rose in the air. For a few seconds it swayed just above the ground but a gust of wind blew it upwards until its mighty silhouette was against the sky.' \n\nThe 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 mines. In these tales of bureaucrats, officials and artists, Mrozek conjures perfectly a life of imagined crimes and absurd authority.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49001241608411,"sku":"9780141193045-RETAIL","price":25.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/56638f10-41bb-4eb4-a3b6-653a52033b8d.jpg?v=1784744844","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780141193045-retail-the-elephant","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}