A Wild Sheep ChaseIt begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep within himself. |
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Page 122
... probably the sheep found its way into the Boss . That would have been in 1936. And for the next forty years or so , the sheep remained lodged in the Boss . There inside , it must have found a pasture , a birch forest . Like the one in ...
... probably the sheep found its way into the Boss . That would have been in 1936. And for the next forty years or so , the sheep remained lodged in the Boss . There inside , it must have found a pasture , a birch forest . Like the one in ...
Page 137
... Probably gone out to eat , I guessed , then to her place . I got orange juice out of the refrigerator and popped three - day- old bread into the toaster . It tasted like wall plaster . Through the kitchen window I could see the ...
... Probably gone out to eat , I guessed , then to her place . I got orange juice out of the refrigerator and popped three - day- old bread into the toaster . It tasted like wall plaster . Through the kitchen window I could see the ...
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... probably had no practical value , but it couldn't hurt . The author was born in 1940 in Junitaki and , after graduating from the literature department of Hokkaido University , was active as a local historian , or so the cover copy said ...
... probably had no practical value , but it couldn't hurt . The author was born in 1940 in Junitaki and , after graduating from the literature department of Hokkaido University , was active as a local historian , or so the cover copy said ...
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References to this book
The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |