A Wild Sheep ChaseIt 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. |
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... face , half- eaten doughnut still in hand . It made me wonder how other peo- ple saw me . Not that I had any way of knowing , of course . I fin- ished off the doughnut and left . There was a travel agency near the train station , where ...
... face , half- eaten doughnut still in hand . It made me wonder how other peo- ple saw me . Not that I had any way of knowing , of course . I fin- ished off the doughnut and left . There was a travel agency near the train station , where ...
Page 274
... face , then drank down a couple of glasses quickly . The water was cold as ice , but still my face was burning hot . I sat back down on the sofa amid the darkness and silence and began gradually to gather up the pieces of my life . I ...
... face , then drank down a couple of glasses quickly . The water was cold as ice , but still my face was burning hot . I sat back down on the sofa amid the darkness and silence and began gradually to gather up the pieces of my life . I ...
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... face my hand felt in the dark wasn't my own , I didn't think . It was the face of another that had taken the shape of my face . But I couldn't remember the details . Everything - names , sensations , places - dissolved and was swallowed ...
... face my hand felt in the dark wasn't my own , I didn't think . It was the face of another that had taken the shape of my face . But I couldn't remember the details . Everything - names , sensations , places - dissolved and was swallowed ...
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References to this book
The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |