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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... silence you en- counter on entering a grand manor . And there is the silence that comes of too few people in too big a space . But this was a different quality of silence altogether . A ponderous , oppressive silence . A silence ...
... silence you en- counter on entering a grand manor . And there is the silence that comes of too few people in too big a space . But this was a different quality of silence altogether . A ponderous , oppressive silence . A silence ...
Page 109
... silent . This was a definitive silence , one you could judge the qualities of other silences by . " Anyway , what we want is a few pieces of informa- tion : namely , where and from whom did you receive that photograph , and what was ...
... silent . This was a definitive silence , one you could judge the qualities of other silences by . " Anyway , what we want is a few pieces of informa- tion : namely , where and from whom did you receive that photograph , and what was ...
Page 258
... silence . The sort of silence that follows in the wake of the death of all living things . I set down my book and for no particular reason felt the urge to walk through the house . From the living room into the kitchen , checking the ...
... silence . The sort of silence that follows in the wake of the death of all living things . I set down my book and for no particular reason felt the urge to walk through the house . From the living room into the kitchen , checking the ...
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References to this book
The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |