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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This unhappy combination stood untouched for several decades until someone added a stone tower off to one side . At the pinnacle of this tower was affixed a decorative lightning rod . A mistake . Lightning was meant to strike the ...
This unhappy combination stood untouched for several decades until someone added a stone tower off to one side . At the pinnacle of this tower was affixed a decorative lightning rod . A mistake . Lightning was meant to strike the ...
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Before us stood the Sheep Professor . a The Sheep Professor had long hair , white as snow . His eyebrows were also white , hanging down over his eyes like icicles . He stood five foot ten . A self - possessed figure . Sturdy - boned .
Before us stood the Sheep Professor . a The Sheep Professor had long hair , white as snow . His eyebrows were also white , hanging down over his eyes like icicles . He stood five foot ten . A self - possessed figure . Sturdy - boned .
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We set our backpacks on the ground and stood there saying nothing , trying to get our bearings . Below us a slender ribbon of silver river wound its way through the valley , both banks covered in dense green forest .
We set our backpacks on the ground and stood there saying nothing , trying to get our bearings . Below us a slender ribbon of silver river wound its way through the valley , both banks covered in dense green forest .
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User Review - donhazelwood - LibraryThingThis book ... this book ... this book came at me like Kurt Vonnegut on Risperidone telling his version of Moby Dick. A great read - I don't quite know what Murakami was trying to say - but I throughly ... Read full review
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User Review - Aug3Zimm - LibraryThingIntellectually interesting but not emotionally engaging. One thing I really enjoy about Murakami is how he portrays a sense of disconnectedness between people. That feeling was more prevalent in the ... Read full review
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| Title | A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel Contemporary Fiction, Plume Series Plume book Plume contemporary fiction |
| Author | Haruki Murakami |
| Edition | reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 Jan 2010 |
| ISBN | 0452265169, 9780452265165 |
| Length | 299 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary |
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