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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... snow again . This time an opaque snow , a sticky , wet sleet edging toward ice flakes . Unlike the first loose snow , this one was nasty . It stuck to the body . I cut short my run , returned to the house , and drew a bath . While the ...
... snow again . This time an opaque snow , a sticky , wet sleet edging toward ice flakes . Unlike the first loose snow , this one was nasty . It stuck to the body . I cut short my run , returned to the house , and drew a bath . While the ...
Page 268
... snow , which gleamed in the sunlight . The snow that had collected on the roof's gables came sliding down in would - be icebergs that broke up on the ground with an unnerving thud . Melting snow dripped outside the windows . Everything ...
... snow , which gleamed in the sunlight . The snow that had collected on the roof's gables came sliding down in would - be icebergs that broke up on the ground with an unnerving thud . Melting snow dripped outside the windows . Everything ...
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... snow down from its gabled roof . A block of snow slid off the roof and dashed to the ground with a thud . I kept walking across the pasture . On through the endless birch woods , across the bridge , around the base of the conical peak ...
... snow down from its gabled roof . A block of snow slid off the roof and dashed to the ground with a thud . I kept walking across the pasture . On through the endless birch woods , across the bridge , around the base of the conical peak ...
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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