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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... mountains were rumbling with snowslides . Ever hear a snowslide ? Right after a snowslide comes the most perfect silence . Complete , total silence . You lose almost all sense of where you are . It's that quiet . Sealed off in the mountains ...
... mountains were rumbling with snowslides . Ever hear a snowslide ? Right after a snowslide comes the most perfect silence . Complete , total silence . You lose almost all sense of where you are . It's that quiet . Sealed off in the mountains ...
Page 169
... mountains in the background as a handle toward searching out the place . You'll research places where they raise ... mountains . Nobody could recall ever having seen the mountains in the photograph . " They're such ordinary - looking ...
... mountains in the background as a handle toward searching out the place . You'll research places where they raise ... mountains . Nobody could recall ever having seen the mountains in the photograph . " They're such ordinary - looking ...
Page 235
... mountains . The angle was dif- ferent , to be sure , but there was no mistaking : these were the same mountains in the Rat's photograph . I didn't need to pull out the photograph to check . Still , it was unsettling seeing A WILD SHEEP ...
... mountains . The angle was dif- ferent , to be sure , but there was no mistaking : these were the same mountains in the Rat's photograph . I didn't need to pull out the photograph to check . Still , it was unsettling seeing A WILD SHEEP ...
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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