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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... gave up on the coffee midway , dug a bent cigarette out of my pocket , and lit up with matches that I'd never seen before . The tip of the cigarette crackled dryly as its lavender smoke formed a tracery in the morning light . " I went ...
... gave up on the coffee midway , dug a bent cigarette out of my pocket , and lit up with matches that I'd never seen before . The tip of the cigarette crackled dryly as its lavender smoke formed a tracery in the morning light . " I went ...
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... gave me it a few years ago , " said the chauffeur out of nowhere . " Gave you what ? " " God's telephone number . " I let out a groan so loud it drowned out everything else . Either I was going crazy or they were all looney toons . " He ...
... gave me it a few years ago , " said the chauffeur out of nowhere . " Gave you what ? " " God's telephone number . " I let out a groan so loud it drowned out everything else . Either I was going crazy or they were all looney toons . " He ...
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Haruki Murakami. sachet in the lavatory gave off the fragance of a gin - with - lime you'd get at a fancy bar . I ... gave it a turn . Right away the engine was purring . It was the same Rat , always good at tuning his automobiles . I ...
Haruki Murakami. sachet in the lavatory gave off the fragance of a gin - with - lime you'd get at a fancy bar . I ... gave it a turn . Right away the engine was purring . It was the same Rat , always good at tuning his automobiles . I ...
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Ainu youth 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 head Hokkaido it'd J's Bar Japan jeep Johnny Rivers 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 sure talk tell there's things thought Tokyo Tokyo Station took town turned U.S. Army waiting walked watched whiskey whole WILD SHEEP CHASE window winter word
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |