A Wild Sheep Chase: A NovelA marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami’s international reputation. It 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. Quirky and utterly captivating, A Wild Sheep Chase is Murakami at his astounding best. |
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Page 139
... feel threat- ened about ? Next to nothing . I broke up with my wife , I plan to quit my job today , my apartment is ... feeling good again . A pleasant September Sunday after all . Summer had faded to a distant memory almost beyond ...
... feel threat- ened about ? Next to nothing . I broke up with my wife , I plan to quit my job today , my apartment is ... feeling good again . A pleasant September Sunday after all . Summer had faded to a distant memory almost beyond ...
Page 233
... feel- ing of doom that first came over my body , then went on to strike a warning signal in my head . The sort of feeling you get when you're crossing a river and all of a sudden you sink your feet into mud of a different temperature ...
... feel- ing of doom that first came over my body , then went on to strike a warning signal in my head . The sort of feeling you get when you're crossing a river and all of a sudden you sink your feet into mud of a different temperature ...
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... feeling lonely without her , but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation . Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling . It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off . I washed the dishes ...
... feeling lonely without her , but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation . Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling . It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off . I washed the dishes ...
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Ainu youth ALFRED BIRNBAUM Asahikawa ashtray asked ballpoint pen beer better birch Border collie Boss caretaker chaise longue chauffeur cigarette clock coffee cold cyst dark desk Dolphin Hotel door drank ears everything eyes face feel fingers girlfriend glass gone grandfather clock guess hair hand HARUKI MURAKAMI head Hokkaido it'd J's Bar Japan jeep Junitaki Junitaki-cho killer frost lighter living looked mean minutes months morning mountains never nodded okay opened partner pasture photograph pocket probably pulled rain Rat's road Sapporo seemed Sheep Professor Shinjuku Station silence sleep smoke snow sofa someone sound stared stood straight sure talk tell there's things thought Tokyo took town turned U.S. Army waiting walked watched whiskey whole WILD SHEEP CHASE window winter word