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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... five years ago when he disappeared . I was twenty - seven at the time , " she said , distant voice sounding like an echo from the bottom of a well . " A lot of things can change in five years . " " True , " I said . " And really , even ...
... five years ago when he disappeared . I was twenty - seven at the time , " she said , distant voice sounding like an echo from the bottom of a well . " A lot of things can change in five years . " " True , " I said . " And really , even ...
Page 133
... five thousand sheep . " " Five thousand ? " " The number of sheep in Hokkaido . In 1947 , there were two hundred seventy thousand sheep in Hokkaido , but now there are only five thousand . " " How is it you know something like that ...
... five thousand sheep . " " Five thousand ? " " The number of sheep in Hokkaido . In 1947 , there were two hundred seventy thousand sheep in Hokkaido , but now there are only five thousand . " " How is it you know something like that ...
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... five . Nobody would answer him . The Ainu shepherd broke off from the village and stayed out at the pasture , spending his waking and sleeping hours with the sheep . His wife had died from bronchitis five years earlier , and his two ...
... five . Nobody would answer him . The Ainu shepherd broke off from the village and stayed out at the pasture , spending his waking and sleeping hours with the sheep . His wife had died from bronchitis five years earlier , and his two ...
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