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 154
... living things . Why then do train stations and parks and baseball stadiums have names , if they're not living ? " " Why ? Because it'd be chaos if stations didn't have names . " " No , we're not talking on the purposive level . I'd like ...
... living things . Why then do train stations and parks and baseball stadiums have names , if they're not living ? " " Why ? Because it'd be chaos if stations didn't have names . " " No , we're not talking on the purposive level . I'd like ...
Page 260
... living room . I took another look at the newspaper clipping . There it was on the reverse : Attention : Rat Get in touch . Urgent ! Dolphin Hotel , Room 406 I put the clipping back in the book and sank into the sofa . So the Rat knew I ...
... living room . I took another look at the newspaper clipping . There it was on the reverse : Attention : Rat Get in touch . Urgent ! Dolphin Hotel , Room 406 I put the clipping back in the book and sank into the sofa . So the Rat knew I ...
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... living room , can in hand , I looked once more at the living room in the mirror , then looked over at the living room . The Sheep Man was on the sofa , lazily gazing out at the snow . I checked the Sheep Man in the mirror . But there ...
... living room , can in hand , I looked once more at the living room in the mirror , then looked over at the living room . The Sheep Man was on the sofa , lazily gazing out at the snow . I checked the Sheep Man in the mirror . But there ...
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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