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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... up a beer and watched television . Nothing newsworthy on the news either . On Sunday evenings like this , it's always some zoo scene . I watched the rundown of giraffes a a 7 a and elephants and pandas , then switched off 23 ...
... up a beer and watched television . Nothing newsworthy on the news either . On Sunday evenings like this , it's always some zoo scene . I watched the rundown of giraffes a a 7 a and elephants and pandas , then switched off 23 ...
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I drank a beer and watched the office activities , but mainly her . The more I looked at her breasts , the more unusually large they seemed . She must have been strapped into a brassiere with cables from the Golden Gate Bridge .
I drank a beer and watched the office activities , but mainly her . The more I looked at her breasts , the more unusually large they seemed . She must have been strapped into a brassiere with cables from the Golden Gate Bridge .
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Grappling with these two propositions , I watched the second hand sweep slowly around the face of the clock . After one full circumgyration , my reasoning had made no progress . I couldn't figure out what lay at the center of all this .
Grappling with these two propositions , I watched the second hand sweep slowly around the face of the clock . After one full circumgyration , my reasoning had made no progress . I couldn't figure out what lay at the center of all this .
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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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